Blanford Nature Center

Discover the Blanford Nature Center's 'Nature Neighbors' initiative this summer, featuring affordable programs for all ages at seven local parks from May to September.

Here's a chance for you to get outside and watch spring unfold in West Michigan - for free! Look for frogs, listen for birds, and see plants emerge. For the whole month of April, a Grand Rapids nature center is offering free admission.

Discover the wonders of this Grand Rapids nature center this February with free entry to boost heart health!

Next month you'll have a chance to get out in nature, explore scenic trails, attend special events, and hang out with wildlife - all for free!

You can explore the nature center's trails, forest, meadows, and hang out with wildlife ambassadors for free August 1st through the 31st.

After escaping from Blanford Nature Center for the second time in two weeks, the search for Artemis the young, orphaned bobcat continues.

Two weeks ago, Artemis (originally thought to be her brother Apollo) made a similar escape and was found a couple days later in a nearby live trap.

A young male bobcat, a new wildlife ambassador at Grand Rapids' Blanford Nature Center, has escaped his enclosure.

What do you think, do the brother and sister cuties look more like Lil and Phil, Leia and Luke, Artemis and Apollo, or Lilo and Stitch?