Click here to download the Membership Brochure and Application  

Baltimore Woods Nature Center's most important support is membership, please become a member today.

Baltimore Woods Nature Center, a self-funding, nonprofit organization founded in 1966 is dedicated to place-based education and stewardship of the natural environment.  Baltimore Woods is NOT a government agency, nor is it part of a town, county, state, or federal park systems.  Your membership dollars help provide:

• A quiet place to hike for over 20,000 Central New Yorkers each year.
• Maintenance of 182 acres of habitat and over six miles of trails for nature study, hiking, and quiet reflection.
• A place where over 500 children attend nature day camp each year

Member Benefits include:

• Baltimore Woods Nature Center is pleased to announce a new member benefit effective October, 2010. Show your BWNC membership card and receive FREE admission to the New York State Zoo at Thompson Park, Watertown, NY. The Zoo is located at One Thompson Park, Watertown, NY. Visit their website at www.nyszoo.org.
• Quarterly newsletter subscription
• Discounted or waived fees on public programs
• Access to Members Only programs  and events such as Day Camps for children and teens or the Members Only Plant Sale
  
• Opportunity to display your artwork in the Weeks Art Gallery
  
• Show your Baltimore Woods Nature Center membership card and receive reciprocal benefits such as free admission and store discounts to any of the listed centers in the Association of Nature Center Administrators network.  Click here for a list of reciprocal nature centers
  
• Discounts in the Baltimore Woods store
• Reduced rental rates
• FREE use of modern snowshoes at the Baltimore Woods site.
• Voting rights at the Annual Meeting
• The most important benefit, however, is the satisfaction of knowing you support conservation and place-based education in Central New York

Doug's Fish Fry in Skaneateles

Every new BWNC member will receive a gift certificate for a free fish sandwich at Doug's Fish Fry in Skaneateles. What a wonderful way to show Doug's support!

NEW! Search and Shop for Baltimore Woods!

 

What if you could support Baltimore Woods just by searching the web or shopping online? That's the idea behind GoodSearch.com and GoodShop.com, and we're pleased to say it's working! 

 

Want to join in? Go to www.GoodSearch.com and select Baltimore Woods Nature Center as your designated charity.Every time you search from the GoodSearch.com page your activity will be credited to our account. Start your own mini fund drive for the Woods by encouraging your friends and neighbors to do the same.  Need a charitable project for your school class, Scout Troop or social organization?  Select a research topic and have your members "surf away" on Goodsearch.com Make it even easier by making GoodSearch your default search engine. Follow the simple instructions on their website to download the link.

 

Shopping on-line? Go to GoodShop.com and select BWNC as "Who you GoodShop For".. Then scroll through the merchants that partner with GoodShop, select you favorite and click on the link.  As long as you enter their sight through the link from GoodShop your purchases will result in donations to Baltimore Woods.    

 

This organization raises thousands of dollars for charity every year. Help us make Baltimore Woods one of their largest recipients.

Your Baltimore Woods Membership
Migrates With You

Attention all winter migrants! Did you know that as a BW member you are entitled to reciprocal admission and discounts at a number of nature centers throughout the U.S. and Canada? For the benefit of our members who move along the Atlantic flyway to Florida, what follows is a list of Florida nature centers that offer free admission, free parking, or gift shop discounts.

If your winter migration takes you to another destination, click here for the complete list of nature centers offering reciprocal benefits. Don't forget to pack your Baltimore Woods' membership card!

Cowley Museum and Nature Center		Dagger Wing Nature Center
Sarasota FL		Boca Raton Fl
941 322-1000		561 338-1473
free admission		free admission and parking
Environmental Learning Center		Gumbo Limbo Nature Center
Vero Beach, FL		Boca Raton Fl
561 589-5050		561 338-1473
free admission and parking		free admission, parking, and shop discount
Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Biscayne		Okeeheelee Nature Center
Nature Center		West Palm Beach FL
Key Biscayne FL		561 233-1400
305 642-9600		free admission and parking
free admission
Pine Jog Env. Educ. Ctr		Tree Hill Jacksonville Nature Ctr
West Palm Beach FL		Jacksonville FL
561 686-6600		904 724-4646
free admission and parking		free admission, parking, and shop discount

** All items and money donated to BWNC are tax deductible. BWNC is a 501 (C) (3) tax exempt private non-profit, membership organization. It is classified under the environmental education division as filed with the Internal Revenue service in 1966.

BWNC is not an affiliate of the County, State or Federal government or its organizations.
All funds donated help support continued environmental education programming at Baltimore Woods and/or benefit facilities improvement.

Give the Gift of Nature

If you would like to join, or would like to gift a membership to Baltimore Woods Nature Center, please download the membership brochure, complete the form, and mail it to us with a check payable to BWNC. Payment with Visa or Mastercard is also available

Our mailing address:
Baltlimore Woods Nature Center
PO Box 133
Marcellus, N.Y. 13108-0133

Thank You!