Welcome...
Dunwoody Park is open sun-up to sundown, seven days a week, free of charge. Dunwoody Nature Center is open Monday through Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Visit us soon!
Current Events
Here's what's going on at Dunwoody Nature Center. There are plenty of fun activities for you and your family to enjoy.
A NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR Salutations from Claire.
SUMMER CAMP REGISTRATION Check out our exciting Summer Camp 2008 line-up.
DREAM GREEN! Congratulations to Cory Feig-Sandoval, Molly Huntington, and Jonathan Knope, students who took first place at the Georgia Conservancy's 2008 Youth Environmental Symposium. Their project? A reality-based vision of what a new, energy-efficient "green" building in Dunwoody Park might be like!.
2008 DREAM GARDENS OF DUNWOODY TOUR May 16 - 18, 2008. Tickets available at Dunwoody Nature Center during regular office hours and at Wild Bird Center, Williamsburg Shopping Center at the corner of Jett Ferry and Mt. Vernon Road in Dunwoody.
CONCERTS IN THE PARK Bring your chairs, blankets, and picnics for a family-friendly evening of music in the meadow. Check times carefully, as ourartists' schedules are not all the same! FREE To DNC Members & Kids under 3; $3/child & $5/adult for non-members.
- Jeff Thomas & Ed Keith - Saturday, May 10; 6-8 pm
- Wesley Cook - Saturday, June 14; 6-8 pm
- Brian Ashley Jones - Saturday, July 12; 5-7 pm
- Kristin Tinsley - Saturday, August 16; 6-8 pm
- Nick Edelstein - Saturday, September 13; 6-8 pm
- Amon Yatta & Family Affair - Saturday, October 4; 6-8 pm
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES for DNC projects and special events as well as Hands On Atlanta workdays.
Treehouse Progress!
It's finished!!!!!!
It's finally happening! Thanks to Austin Elementary, many Dunwoody friends, and the DeKalb County Parks Improvement Fund, construction of the treehouse is nearly complete. We look forward to using this covered pavilion as a cool new educational space and a great place to watch wetland birds and wildlife.
Update: The county has issued the certificate of occupancy, and visitors are exploring this brand new learning space. There's one provision - we need to be careful of the wetlands below. That's why you'll still see some orange plastic barriers around the grounds. Until this fully "greens up," the CO is provisional only!
We'll celebrate this long-awaited new feature of Dunwoody Nature Center some time in May . . . details to come!
Who We Are
The Dunwoody Nature Center is a nonprofit 501-c3 organization established by community volunteers in 1990 to develop, improve, and preserve twenty-two acres of DeKalb County’s Dunwoody Park as a natural classroom for environmental education.
The park features a wetland boardwalk, woodland and streamside trails; display gardens; a picnic meadow; and a shaded playground. The park is open sun-up to sundown, seven days a week, free of charge. Dunwoody Nature Center is open Monday – Friday, 9 am to 5 pm and some Saturdays, to provide programs for children and adults.
Updated 5/7/2008