Worldwide Parks and Recreation Areas with Birding

George Washington Carver's boyhood home consists of rolling hills, woodlands, and prairies. The 210 acre park has a 3/4 mile nature trail, museum, and an interactive exhibit area for students. The cultural setting includes the 1881 Historic Moses Carver house and the Carver cemetery. read more...

Phone: 417-325-4151   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No  
Nearest Popular City: Diamond   Nearest Lake/River: N/A   Park Type: National Monument   Activities: Birding, Nature Walks   Details Provided By: George Washington Carver

A beautiful mountain valley just west of Pikes Peak holds spectacular remnants of the earth's prehistoric life. Huge petrified redwoods and incredibly detailed fossils of ancient insects and plants reveal a very different Colorado of long ago. Almost 35 million years ago, enormous volcanic eruptions buried the then-lush valley and petrified the redwood trees that grew there. A lake formed in the valley and the fine-grained sediments at its bottom became the final resting-place for thousands of insects and plants. These sediments compacted into layers of shale and preserved the delicate details of these organisms as fossils. read more...

Phone: (719)748-3253   Price Range: $0 - $3   Open Season: N/A   Camping: Yes  
Nearest Popular City: Florissant   Nearest Lake/River: N/A   Park Type: National Monument   Activities: Birding, Hiking, Horseback Riding, Wildlife Watching, Nature Walks   Details Provided By: Florissant Fossil Beds

To American Impressionist painter J. Alden Weir, his beloved Connecticut farm provided him with the means to explore his artistic impressions of nature. For 37 years, Weir and visiting friends such as Childe Hassam and John Twachtman painted the gentle rolling hills, rocky pastures, people, and animals of the 153-acre farm. After Weirs death in 1919, the next two generations to live at the farm were also artists. read more...

Phone: 203-834-1896   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: Yes  
Nearest Popular City: Wilton   Nearest Lake/River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities: Birding, Hiking, Cross Country Skiing, Wildlife Watching, Nature Walks, Interpretive Programs   Details Provided By: Weir Farm National Historic Site