Walk at the Wild Center

Naturally Engaging and Entertaining

The Wild Center, located on the picturesque Raquette River in Tupper Lake, is a new museum where the wild world of the Adirondacks opens before your eyes.  The center offers a number of unique hands-on features not found in an ordinary museum.  Take a walk on the outdoor trail system, tour the main exhibit hall and the "Living River", which follows a course from a marsh to its source at the summit of a High Peak.  Live animals, including river otters, birds, amphibians and fish are also part of this exhibit.  The "Naturalist Cabinet" provides hands-on collections and discovery boxes. 

The center also features a towering glacial ice wall, high-definition films, wide-screen theater and a large array of interactive media exhibits.  This fabulous, new nature museum will entertain and educate your entire family.  Be prepared for fun and learning on your next trip to the Adirondack Region!   You can be among the first to enjoy this engaging new center!

Walking The Tree Tops

The “Wings Over the Adirondacks” experience opened on July 4, 2007, at the Adirondack Park’s new Wild Center in Tupper Lake. The experience will include SeeingSound, a surround-sound multimedia feature; Birdland, an outdoor living exhibit of more than 35 examples that will help visitors see how to enhance bird habitat; Bird Encounters with the Wild Center’s resident kestrel, owls, and other birds; All Things Birds series of presentations in the Flammer Theater offering the newest views into the world of birds including first-hand reports on the Ivory-billed Woodpecker search; and Be a Bird, an interactive hands-on games will let you get into the minds of various birds.

When completed, the exhibit feature will be a series of outdoor, state-of-the-art, interconnected ‘tree houses’ linked by hanging bridges and surrounded by enhanced habitat. The exhibit will include a 50-foot-long covered bridge called “Feeder Alley” that will be surrounded by feeding and nesting stations. The Bird Skywalk and Skytowers will give birders a vantage point for exploring the Adirondack's bird country.