Join one of our naturalists for programs and events or stop in on your visit to Brecksville Reservation. 9000 Chippewa Creek Drive Brecksville, OH 44141.
Want to discover deep forested ravines, walk through a restored Ohio prairie with grasses over eight feet tall, or explore glacial river valleys carved over 10,000 years ago? Brecksville Nature Center offers all this and more to visitors each year.
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Brecksville Nature Center opened its doors on June 11, 1939 as a WPA era Trailside Museum. It remains to this day the last of Cleveland Metroparks original trailside museums. The nature center serves as a place for people to gather and extend their experience of the reservation by being introduced to the wilderness, beauty and treasures of the past that await discovery. Personal encounters with wildlife play a major role at the center.
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Naturalist Foster Brown will be on hand at Brecksville Nature Center to answer your curious...
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Drop by as we relish the colors of fall one last time with collected fallen leaves. We’ll create...
Discover more about our winter resident birds while you enjoy coffee, tea, and a light breakfast...
Gather around the fireplace for the story “Stranger in the Woods” and a short hike. Upon our...
Come make pinecone bird feeders for our feathered friends. Learn about which birds might visit...
Join a naturalist and listen to the story, “Bear Can’t Sleep”, on the shortest day of the year...
The Trailside Program Center is a facility that hosts a variety of educational programs that connect visitors to the natural world around them. The building is open for programs only.
Access to several different trails. Brecksville Nature Center is a National Historical Site, built in 1939.
This planted 4-acre tall grass prairie is a unique ecosystem with incredible plant and animal diversity.