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  • Carl & Audrey Lavin Speaker Series: Celebrating Native Plant Month

    Apr 22, 2025 6:00PM

    The Wilderness Center 9877 Alabama Ave SW Wilmot, OH 44689

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    Selecting Native Plants for Our Landscapes Understanding the natural condition of our landscape is the most important consideration for success as we reintroduce native plants into our garden designs. Selecting the right plant for the existing conditions makes establishment easier and will have a better outcome. We will discuss plant selection based on soil disturbance…

  • Tree of Life Tree Planting

    Apr 26, 2025 10:00AM—2:30PM

    Wiles Woods 3601 Easton Road West Salem, OH 44287

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    A Tree of Life gift to The Wilderness Center is a meaningful way to honor a loved one, celebrate a special occasion, or commemorate a milestone such as a birthday, anniversary, or retirement. Thanks to generous contributions to TWC’s Tree of Life program, we will be planting over 600 trees at this year’s Tree of Life…

  • Run Wild! 2025

    Apr 26, 2025 8:00AM—12:00PM

    The Wilderness Center 9877 Alabama Ave. SW Wilmot, OH 44689

    Run Wild! on the trails at The Wilderness Center! Join us in celebrating Earth Day with an early morning run/walk/hike and experience the beauty of nature. Take on the timed 5K or 10K, or bring the whole family out for the One-Mile Fun Run! You can even choose to run/walk/hike a Combo that combines the…

  • Volunteer at Run Wild!

    Apr 26, 2025 7:30AM

    The Wilderness Center 9877 Alabama Ave Sw Wilmot, OH 44689

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    Join us in the excitement of Run Wild! as runners take on the 10k, 5k, and 1Mile Fun Run!  We need volunteers to:  – Help pass out water to the runners at our water stations. – Cheer on runners along the trail Sign up to join the fun today! 

  • Owl Prowl

    May 09, 2025 8:30PM—9:30PM

    The Wilderness Center 9877 Alabama Ave SW Wilmot, OH 44689

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    Whooo likes owls? Come to The Wilderness Center for this nighttime program to learn about these intriguing nocturnal birds. Learn how owls thrive in the night, the different owl calls, and signs that owls are around. Out on the trails, channel your inner owl with some activities as we try to spot some owls on…

Current & Upcoming

Planetarium Show: Journey To A Billion Suns

Jul 07, 2023 9:00PM—10:00PM

The Wilderness Center 9877 Alabama Ave Wilmot, OH 44689

Learn about the exciting, untold story of mapping the stars, combining ancient history with scientific evolution.  Look back at the astronomers whose quest was to understand the distance to the stars for the purpose of understanding how our world was formed.  From the 129BC star map of about 1000 stars created by Hipparchus to the…

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Past | Archive

Hike Our Trails Volunteer Series: Doughty Gorge

Apr 18, 2025 12:00PM—2:30PM

Doughty Gorge, 3729 Township Rd 154, Millersburg, OH 44654

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Frog Monitoring with Telescopes

Apr 18, 2025 8:00PM—10:30PM

The Wilderness Center 9877 Alabama Ave SW Wilmot, OH 44689

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Carl & Audrey Lavin Speaker Series: Celebrating Native Plant Month

Apr 15, 2025 6:00PM

The Wilderness Center 9877 Alabama Ave SW Wilmot, OH 44689

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Carl & Audrey Lavin Speaker Series: Celebrating Native Plant Month

Apr 12, 2025 1:00PM

The Wilderness Center 9877 Alabama Ave SW Wilmot, OH 44689

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Dark Skies Matter

Apr 12, 2025 11:00AM—12:00PM

The Wilderness Center 9877 Alabama Ave SW Wilmot, OH 44689

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Wildflower Hike at Doughty Gorge

Apr 11, 2025 6:00PM—8:00PM

Doughty Gorge 3729 Township Rd 154 Millersburg, OH 44654

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