New Canaan Nature Center — Establishment, school and park at 144 Oenoke Ridge, New Canaan, Connecticut.

The New Canaan Nature Center may be the best nature school in the country with classes for preschool children and other educational classes for every age group including the surrounding community. The preschool teachers are required to have their masters while working on their doctorates in order to teach at the nature center. They make the learning fun and educational for the children who begin at age two and continue through age three or four. The Nature Center has vast areas of unspoiled land with long trails for hiking bee keeping maples syrup making aviaries swamps wetlands densely forested areas with huge old trees from which the children extract maple syrup. It's an enjoyable experience for all ages providing a haven from busy lives with the chance to commune with nature. It's a non profit organization established to help young and old learn about the environment. Subsidies are available for those who can't afford it. Located in a beautiful rustic setting conveniently near New York and surrounding towns the New Canaan Nature Center is a wonderful place to have an education especially before beginning kindergarten. It offers a happy environment for creating sound minds and bodies. I attended school there at the age of two and I loved it :)