Top rated Nature preserves in Silver Spring, United States to elevate your visit (Updated April, 2024)

Top rated Nature preserves in Silver Spring

Experience the best that Silver Spring has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 30 places from Nature preserve category.

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Catoctin Creek Park & Nature Center

Park

Verdant park known for its native wildlife, charming walking trails & a cozy nature center.

4.80 (399 reviews) (~41.53 km from centre)

Howard County Conservancy

Non-profit organization

👍👍 Absolutely wonderful! Great free programs, amazing summer camp, schools out programs, and they have a nature preschool now! Lots of resident animals that are excited to meet you. Over 200 acres and 3 miles of trails! Staff are friendly and helpful always. Also a great venue for weddings or events!

4.80 (315 reviews) (~34.6 km from centre)

Nature Forward

Nature preserve

Bird-watching boutique with books, jewelry, cards, seed & optics that can be tested on the grounds.

4.80 (152 reviews) (~19.48 km from centre)

Jerome "Buddie" Ford Nature Center

Nature preserve

👍👍 Such a fun center, so many live animals and things to touch and microscopes to use. Tons of books, play area for littles, a nature center down below, and awesome staff. Not sure how it is when crowded, excited to check out some programs.

4.80 (108 reviews) (~35.37 km from centre)

Sweet Run State Park

Park

4.80 (91 reviews) (~47.72 km from centre)

Middle Patuxent Environmental Area & Foundation Parking

Nature preserve

4.80 (61 reviews) (~26.18 km from centre)

Bear Island Potomac Gorge

Nature preserve

👍👍 Billy Goat Trail A: Marker 3 Check out the cascading waterfalls and unique bridge. Billy Goat Trail A: Marker 2 & 1 Rocky trail and beautiful view

4.80 (38 reviews) (~16.24 km from centre)

Robinson Nature Center

Nature preserve

18-acre center exploring the local ecosystem via a planetarium, nature exhibits & wooded trail.

4.70 (664 reviews) (~27.51 km from centre)

Dora Kelley Nature Park

Park

Sizable park offering trails & a nature center with animals & environmental classes.

4.70 (477 reviews) (~35.15 km from centre)

Watkins Nature Center

Park

👍👍 Great park with lots to do! Very popular destination. Paved walking paths throughout as well as hiking trails in the woods. Nature Center has live animal habitat displays and programs for nature and crafts. Mini-golf, railroad, and carousel closed, but nature Center, park an playground open. Season...

4.70 (404 reviews) (~45.32 km from centre)

Scott's Run Falls

Nature preserve

👍👍 Located close to the Great Falls. This is a unique waterfall with mesmerizing views. If you like the outdoors, you're going to like it here. Hiking trails abound within within proximity of the water fall.

4.70 (283 reviews) (~19.23 km from centre)

Fountain Rock Nature Center

Nature preserve

22-acre park with a pondside deck, hiking areas & old lime kilns, plus a nature center with animals.

4.70 (251 reviews) (~39.91 km from centre)

Tregaron Conservancy

Nature preserve

👍👍 Tregaron is my favorite quiet spot in DC. I used to live overlooking it from Macomb and over the years it’s been a place to feel at peace amid city life. I highly recommend taking a slow, mindful walk through and linking up with the main trails to the Zoo or Woodley. Cheers!

4.70 (183 reviews) (~26.25 km from centre)

Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve

Nature preserve

👍👍 Although there's plenty of people, they generally seem respectful and it's not the kind of place where there's tons of kids running around and partying or people playing music. Just a quiet Waterfront Park. I go to do bird photography, there's an osprey nest close to the marina and capturing pics o...

4.70 (157 reviews) (~43.83 km from centre)

Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve

Nature preserve

👍👍 I live near Banshee Reeks so I'm there most weekends with my dog. It's nice and quiet. Even if there are tons of cars in the parking lot, you may not see anyone else. The trail map is helpful - took me some time to figure it out but all in all a helpful resource. With the way the trails are laid ou...

4.60 (208 reviews) (~35.16 km from centre)

Woodend Sanctuary & Mansion

Event venue

👍👍 As a wedding photographer, this venue was a dream. There are so many beautiful nooks and crannies in the house for photos, and it directly abuts an awesome forest that's great for portraits. The wedding I photographed here was a brunch celebration in late October and the light streaming through the...

4.60 (172 reviews) (~19.67 km from centre)

Claude Moore Nature Center

Nature preserve

👍👍 Great hiking paths and not too crowded for a Thursday afternoon.

4.60 (139 reviews) (~21.85 km from centre)

Dickerson Conservation Park

Nature preserve

This 304-acre park along the Potomac River features wooded nature trails & picnic tables.

4.60 (96 reviews) (~23.04 km from centre)

Patuxent Research Refuge - North Tract Visitor Center

Nature preserve

👍👍 It was awful. Stay away. The wildlife was ugly and the roads were solid speed bumps. All the people I saw looked like Russian soldiers after occupying Chernobyl. This was a terrible, bad, no good place to go slow biking with my fluffy mini white wolf. It was a tank and artillery training range...

4.60 (83 reviews) (~38.25 km from centre)

Liberty Reservoir

Nature preserve

Waterside nature preserve offering boating & shore fishing, plus hiking & birdwatching.

4.50 (843 reviews) (~41.7 km from centre)

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Top rated Nature preserves in Silver Spring, United States