Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center

Don Steenhoek

Wonderful place, great trails, excellent educational program, splendid staff.

Carolyn “Kiteara” Thiessen

Amazing facility and beautiful walks.

Blake Malan

In short: The touch tank isn’t really a touch tank. The butterfly exhibit had no butterflies. The walking path outside is unusable unless you’re willing to be eaten alive by mosquitoes. In long: We’re disappointed because the main reason we went here was so our kids could experience the touch tank. But the “touch tank” is actually more of a “no touch tank.” The volunteer that guides you is allowed to reach in the water to pick up and touch whatever, but you do not reach into the water. The volunteer will pick up different things and decide what you can and cannot touch. Our family was able to touch a snail and a sea urchin. The volunteer was able to pick up a starfish, but we could not touch it. The touch tank in our home town (in an inland state) is drastically better than this. The only thing we saw here that we hadn’t already seen at the beach was a horseshoe crab which was pretty cool.

Polly H

Nice exhibits and walking trails