Explore Asheville’s Premier Wildlife Park
75 Gashes Creek Rd
Asheville, NC, United States
North Carolina
(CLOSED Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, & New Year’s Day)
The WNC Nature Center is Asheville’s premier wildlife park!
The Western North Carolina Nature Center connects people with the animals and plants of the Southern Appalachian Mountain region by inspiring appreciation, nurturing understanding, and advancing conservation of the region’s rich biodiversity.
Today, the Nature Center is one of the primary facilities in Western North Carolina offering school children and adults opportunities to learn about and develop an understanding of their responsibility for this area’s native wildlife and habitats. The WNC Nature Center is home to sixty species of wild and domestic animals and hundreds of species of plants, all representative of this unique bioregion, the Southern Appalachians.
The WNC Nature Center is managed by the City of Asheville.