Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center

Category: Nature preserve

Address: 4500 Sioux River Rd, Sioux City, IA 51109, USA

Phone: +17122580838

Opening hours

Sunday: Closed

Monday: Closed

Tuesday: 9AM–4PM

Wednesday: 9AM–4PM

Thursday: 9AM–4PM

Friday: 9AM–4PM

Saturday: 9AM–4PM

Reviews

Catherine Anne

Oct 16, 2022

Well maintained facilities, friendly staff. We had a great walk on the trails!

Kelsea Peatrowsky

Sep 24, 2022

Beautiful and family friendly.

Andrea Buchan-Hill

Aug 21, 2022

The nature center does a brilliant job of both educating and entertaining without being either overly stimulating or dry and uninteresting like some nature centers are. The place is packed with educational plaques of course but also interactive and informational exhibits about the history and geology of the area. Highly recommend for kids, teenagers, adults, and seniors! Then, there's a gorgeous water feature/rock garden/pond, tons of bird feeders for extensive birdwatching, multiple trails of varying degrees of difficulty, a nature exploration playground (!!!), a bird of prey house, a few native live animals, and I'm sure I'm forgetting something. I HIGHLY recommend the nature center, Elk Point Overlook, and Stone State Park as a destination for any nature lovers!

Sandra Flores

Aug 20, 2022

Beautiful and exciting experience with the kids. Sensory activities. We got to touch a turtle. They playground was super fun. The trails. Just a great place to unwind and have fun

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Questions & Answers

can we bring our dog on the trails?

Connie Meisterburg | Oct 17, 2019
Dawn Snyder | Oct 17, 2019

Please have your dog on a leash and pick up after them and dispose of their wastes properly. Thanks!

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Is there an entrance fee? If yes how much?

Jenny Hausmann | Oct 17, 2019
Del Jensen | Oct 17, 2019

No, there is not. Or wasn't in 2018.

What do we do with a baby robin thats in a basement window well... Nest is nowhere in sight. Dont wanna touch it in case the mom is near or whatever. Plz answer quickly... Unsure how long its been there. Thank you, sunmi

Sunni Roberts | Oct 17, 2019
Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center | Oct 17, 2019

Does the young Robin look like it’s hopping around and is mostly covered with feathers on its body? If so it’s a young that is ready to fledge and is out on it’s own. The mom hangs around somewhere to send them but they are pretty independent. It’s OK to take it out and touch it it’s a wives tale if you touch it the mom will still come back. If you don’t have any pets or other animals in your yard that would hurt it then I would take it out of the window well and let it go. Look around and see if there’s any shrubs or a nest nearby and you could put it near there but it’s most likely fledging and ready to be off on its own. If you don’t want to try to catch it perhaps you could put a board or something angled in the window well that it could climb out of

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