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Anita C. Leight Estuary Center Programs include canoeing, kayaking, hiking, nature education, summer camp, animal encounters, and research activities. Families can join specific programs such as sunset canoe trips, marsh and blooming marsh kayak trips, shoreline fish seining, live reptile encounters, and hands-on monitoring of bay grasses, bluebirds, and marsh plants.
• Schedule: Open to the public year round seven days a week except for holidays and Sundays in winter, with hours Monday–Friday 8:30AM–4:30PM, Saturday 9AM–4:30PM, and Sunday 12PM–4:30PM (closed Sundays from December to March)
Otter Point Creek Alliance, created in 1996, supports the research, education, and conservation goals connected to these programs and promotes environmental education for school students and the general public, volunteer opportunities, research, college internships, and stewardship and conservation in the surrounding area. The leadership team for the Center and Otter Point Creek Alliance includes a site manager, building caretaker, park naturalists, and naturalists, along with board members who bring backgrounds in environmental education, law enforcement, finance, teaching, natural resources biology, watershed management, and community service. Otter Point Creek Alliance is a nonprofit organization and has received a Capacity Building Award from the Chesapeake Bay Trust that supported the creation of its website. The Center and Alliance partner with the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve System in Maryland, the Izaak Walton League of America – Harford County Chapter, and Harford County Government, and community involvement by board members includes coordinating an afterschool program for unsheltered youth, teaching children’s church, fire prevention work, school support, and feeding the homeless. Parents have shared public reviews describing family hikes, the Nature Discovery Area, special events like a Halloween Hike with multiple animal and conservation-themed stations, and trail experiences with water and forest views.
Last updated January 21, 2026.
• Schedule: Open to the public year round seven days a week except for holidays and Sundays in winter, with hours Monday–Friday 8:30AM–4:30PM, Saturday 9AM–4:30PM, and Sunday 12PM–4:30PM (closed Sundays from December to March)
Otter Point Creek Alliance, created in 1996, supports the research, education, and conservation goals connected to these programs and promotes environmental education for school students and the general public, volunteer opportunities, research, college internships, and stewardship and conservation in the surrounding area. The leadership team for the Center and Otter Point Creek Alliance includes a site manager, building caretaker, park naturalists, and naturalists, along with board members who bring backgrounds in environmental education, law enforcement, finance, teaching, natural resources biology, watershed management, and community service. Otter Point Creek Alliance is a nonprofit organization and has received a Capacity Building Award from the Chesapeake Bay Trust that supported the creation of its website. The Center and Alliance partner with the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve System in Maryland, the Izaak Walton League of America – Harford County Chapter, and Harford County Government, and community involvement by board members includes coordinating an afterschool program for unsheltered youth, teaching children’s church, fire prevention work, school support, and feeding the homeless. Parents have shared public reviews describing family hikes, the Nature Discovery Area, special events like a Halloween Hike with multiple animal and conservation-themed stations, and trail experiences with water and forest views.
Last updated January 21, 2026.
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