Fernald Preserve Visitors Center Explore Photo Gallery
A team of high school students focus on environmental sciences while participating in a regional competition-style academic event held at the Fernald Preserve.
The staff at the Fernald Preserve is available to address schools, scouts, senior groups, and other organized groups on a variety of topics relating to the site’s history, mission, groundwater remedy, ecological restoration, environmental sciences, wildlife, ecology, and green building features. Nature and history programs can be customized to meet your group’s specific objectives.
To schedule a program or for more information, please email us at [email protected] or call us at 513-648-3330.
To view the Meeting Space and Program Request Policy, Fernald Preserve, Ohio, Site click here.
The Fernald Preserve, Ohio, Site offers a variety of public programs, privately scheduled programs/speakers, and meeting spaces, in addition to regular visitors center hours, trails, and wildlife viewing areas. Meeting spaces and site-related nature, environmental science, and history programs are available year round.
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January 2025
Month-at-a-Glance
January 1 – 31
Cold War Technology Self-Guided Hike
The Feed Materials Production Center at Fernald was at the forefront of uranium metals processing in the site’s Pilot Plant. This innovation, however, was not limited to Fernald. During the Cold War, the nation needed an entrepreneurial spirit to come out on top in the event of a war with the Soviet Union. Walk along our Weapons-to-Wetland Trail (0.25-mile paved trail) to see what inventions we still interact with today that spawned from a certain demand during the Cold War.Cincinnati Astronomical Society: Exoplanets
Friday, January 10 • 7:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
Join Cincinnati Astronomical society as we explore the topic of Exoplanets! How long have we known about these extrasolar bodies and what information might we be able to glean from them! If weather permits, feel free to stick around after the presentation to look through the telescopes.Sunday Morning Sparrow Banding
Sunday, January 12, and 19 • 7:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
Have you noticed all the sparrows around the visitors center in the winter? Come learn a little bit about these migratory marvels as we try and catch a few! Feel free to stop in anytime during the program and come inside the visitor center to warm up between net checks.Monthly Bird Walk: North Woods
Saturday, January 25 • 8 a.m.-11 a.m.
Join us on a new series of bird walks around the preserve, this month we will be exploring the north woods of the hickory trail, Red-headed woodpeckers and Fox sparrows are regulars in this area in the winter and purple finches are found occasionally as well! This 3-mile hike on flat, but unpaved trails is a great experience year-round!Short-Eared Owl Walk
Saturday, January 11, 18, and 25 • 5 p.m.-6 p.m.
Everyone’s favorite wintertime visitor should be back and prowling the prairies of Fernald at sunset! Come join us on a 1 mile walk in the former production area as we look for the Short-eared Owls. We recommend wearing sturdy shoes for this as the trails are unpaved and sometimes uneven.Fernald Preserve Visitors Center
7400 Willey Road, Hamilton, OH 45013All programs begin in the visitors center. To preregister, please email [email protected] or call (513) 648-3330 and leave your name, contact number and the date of your request.
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Fernald Winter Bird Fest
February 1 – 8, 2025The Community Meeting Room, Resource Room, and outdoor Program Shelter were designed to be used by the public when they are not in use by Fernald Preserve staff. These facilities are available free of charge for noncommercial use by organized groups.
Seating capacity for the Community Meeting Room is 120 for theater seating and 80 for conference seating.
Seating capacity at standard tables in the outdoor Program Shelter is 58.
The seating capacity in the Resource Room is 8 (at a conference table).
The application review process to reserve these facilities could take up to two weeks.
To make a room reservation or for more information, please email us at [email protected] or call us at 513-648-3330.
To view the Meeting Space and Program Request Policy, Fernald Preserve, Ohio, Site click here.