Education Programs at Green Mountain Audubon Center
255 Sherman Hollow Road, Huntington, VT 05462
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Education Programs at Green Mountain Audubon Center include activities such as bird watching, birding, winter tracking, maple sugaring, pond scooping, hiking, and snow shoeing. The program also offers afterschool options, field trips, vacation camps, summer camp, a Free Nature Playgroup, UnSchool, and Library outreach programs. Participants may also engage as a community naturalist or community scientist.
• Ages: 2–18 years old
• Schedule: Office hours Monday–Friday, 8 am–4 pm; trails open daily from dawn until dusk
Audubon Vermont operates the Green Mountain Audubon Center as a state program of the National Audubon Society. The center has been a community hub of outdoor education and conservation for 60 years and is the oldest operating nature center in the state. The Green Mountain Audubon Center has five miles of trails through northern hardwood forest, hemlock swamp, and along the Huntington River, and it is a birding hotspot on eBird. Trails are open to the public year-round from dawn until dusk, and the west River Trail by the sugarbush remains closed because it was completely washed out by flooding and is impassable.
The Visitor Center on Sherman Hollow Road is open Monday–Friday from 8 am to 4 pm and has restrooms, trail maps, trail accessibility information, and a gear loan library with binoculars, field guides, and snow shoes. Trail maps and accessibility information are also posted at trailhead kiosks. Visitors are advised to stay away from steep banks and edges and to download mobile identification apps before visiting because there is no service on the property, or to use the Visitor Center wifi. Audubon’s Pure Vermont Maple Syrup is sold to support the center’s education and conservation programs, and Adventure at Audubon events are offered for adults, preschoolers, foresters, photographers, sugarmakers, and families.
The education and conservation work at the Green Mountain Audubon Center is supported by staff whose backgrounds include environmental science, wildlife ecology, environmental law, wildlife biology, and environmental education. The leadership team includes Debbie Archer, Education Program Manager; Macie Broussard, Senior Conservation Associate; Emily Calder, Coordinator, Education; Tim Duclos, Forest Program Senior Associate; Jamey Fidel, Vice President; Margaret Fowle, Conservation Program Manager; and Kim Guertin, Green Mountain Audubon Center Director. Staff credentials include advanced degrees such as a Master of Science in Environmental Science, a J.D. and Master’s in Environmental Law, and a Master’s in wildlife biology, and Kim Guertin became the first National Audubon certified teacher-naturalist in the country.
Audubon Vermont’s mission is to protect birds, wildlife, and their habitat through engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, stewardship, and action, and to protect birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow. Audubon Vermont and its supporters are involved in conservation, advocacy, and community involvement through a network that includes over 10,000 members, six Vermont chapters including the UVM Campus Chapter, and partners in communities throughout Vermont and along the Atlantic Flyway.
Last updated December 19, 2025.
• Ages: 2–18 years old
• Schedule: Office hours Monday–Friday, 8 am–4 pm; trails open daily from dawn until dusk
Audubon Vermont operates the Green Mountain Audubon Center as a state program of the National Audubon Society. The center has been a community hub of outdoor education and conservation for 60 years and is the oldest operating nature center in the state. The Green Mountain Audubon Center has five miles of trails through northern hardwood forest, hemlock swamp, and along the Huntington River, and it is a birding hotspot on eBird. Trails are open to the public year-round from dawn until dusk, and the west River Trail by the sugarbush remains closed because it was completely washed out by flooding and is impassable.
The Visitor Center on Sherman Hollow Road is open Monday–Friday from 8 am to 4 pm and has restrooms, trail maps, trail accessibility information, and a gear loan library with binoculars, field guides, and snow shoes. Trail maps and accessibility information are also posted at trailhead kiosks. Visitors are advised to stay away from steep banks and edges and to download mobile identification apps before visiting because there is no service on the property, or to use the Visitor Center wifi. Audubon’s Pure Vermont Maple Syrup is sold to support the center’s education and conservation programs, and Adventure at Audubon events are offered for adults, preschoolers, foresters, photographers, sugarmakers, and families.
The education and conservation work at the Green Mountain Audubon Center is supported by staff whose backgrounds include environmental science, wildlife ecology, environmental law, wildlife biology, and environmental education. The leadership team includes Debbie Archer, Education Program Manager; Macie Broussard, Senior Conservation Associate; Emily Calder, Coordinator, Education; Tim Duclos, Forest Program Senior Associate; Jamey Fidel, Vice President; Margaret Fowle, Conservation Program Manager; and Kim Guertin, Green Mountain Audubon Center Director. Staff credentials include advanced degrees such as a Master of Science in Environmental Science, a J.D. and Master’s in Environmental Law, and a Master’s in wildlife biology, and Kim Guertin became the first National Audubon certified teacher-naturalist in the country.
Audubon Vermont’s mission is to protect birds, wildlife, and their habitat through engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, stewardship, and action, and to protect birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow. Audubon Vermont and its supporters are involved in conservation, advocacy, and community involvement through a network that includes over 10,000 members, six Vermont chapters including the UVM Campus Chapter, and partners in communities throughout Vermont and along the Atlantic Flyway.
Last updated December 19, 2025.
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