Recreation & Outdoor Skills

Water’s Changing Journey

With the wonderful combination of an instructor’s guidance and our interactive exhibits, students learn where water comes from and how they can help to conserve it and keep it clean. Through the hands-on approach of our exhibits coupled with the outdoor experience of dipping for pond and river insects or conducting water quality surveys, students learn how important water is to all living creatures in our desert environment.

Nature is for the Birds: Bird Watching and Bird Biology

The 110 acre Riparian Preserve offers students access to a wide variety of environmental studies. Our unique setting provides opportunities to participate in fun and educational experiences not possible in the classroom.

All activities at the Preserve are correlated to the current Arizona State Standards and are cross-curricular in their approach.

The NAU Blue Key Honor Society invites you to participate in a 8k Fun Run/5k Walk benefiting Willow Bend!  The run/walk will begin and end at the turf fields on the southern end of the NAU campus, across from the forestry building.  FREE for kids under 10 with a registered adult.

Pre-Registration Discount:
Students $8.00
Adults/Faculty $15.00
Group of 10 Students: $75.00
Group of 5 Adults $70.00
Pre-Registration Ends Saturday March 12, 2011.

Regular Prices:
Students: $10.00
Adults/Faculty $20.00

The University of Arizona's Santa Rita Experimental Range is an outdoor laboratory for ecological and land management discoveries.  The facility has lodging to support research and educational uses.

Focus Wild Arizona is the Arizona Game and Fish Department’s award-winning environmental education program. Not only does it  promote a sense of awareness and stewardship of the world around us, but also uses the environment as a context for learning science, social studies, math and language arts.

Focus Wild Arizona is free and available to teachers throughout Arizona. Some of the resources available right now from the website: