Long Branch Environmental Education Center
Environmental Conservation Organization
Why pick this one
Long Branch Environmental Education Center provides outdoor school programs on more than 1,400 acres, including forest, water, wildlife, and resource-management lessons.
Best for
- School groups seeking customized outdoor science lessons
- Students studying forest ecology, water ecology, wildlife, entomology, or trees
- Visitors seeking hiking, birding, berry picking, or nature observation
- Groups interested in sustainable systems, organic gardens, renewable energy, or ecological restoration
- Volunteers seeking land stewardship and work-day opportunities
Look elsewhere if
- Indoor-only educational programming
- Emergency environmental response
- Commercial environmental compliance or remediation services
Specialties
- environmental education
- forest ecology
- water ecology and stream health assessment
- wildlife ecology
- entomology
- outdoor living skills
- resource management
- tree study
What makes them different
- Located on more than 1,400 acres in Buncombe County's Newfound Mountains
- Established as an ecological sanctuary and land trust in 1974
- Outdoor classes can be customized to North Carolina Essential Standards for Science
- Public access is available daily from sunrise to 5pm
- Site includes organic gardens, heirloom fruit trees, solar structures, hydroelectric systems, and a trout pond
- Serves
- Leicester, Asheville
Distilled from this business's own website.
Contact & Location
- Address
- 278 Boyd Cove Rd, Leicester, NC 28748-5662
- Phone
- +18287123662
- Website
- http://www.longbrancheec.org/
- hello@longbrancheec.org
Services
- customized outdoor school programs
- hiking trails
- birding and bird watching
- guided tours
- volunteering and stewardship work days
- sustainable systems demonstrations
- berry picking
- overnight stays
- membership access to trails and facilities