Beaver Creek Reserve

Beaver Creek Reserve Beaver Creek Reserve is an environmental educational and recreational nature facility open year-round.
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We are located in Fall Creek, Wisconsin, right outside of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. ABOUT

Beaver Creek Reserve is an environmental educational and recreational nature facility open year-round. With more than 400 acres of diverse habitat including upland woods, river bottom forests, wetlands and savannah areas. Beaver Creek Reserve is home to new ways of experiencing and connecting with nature. Click

on the map above for directions to the Reserve or check us out on our website for information and upcoming events. https://www.beavercreekreserve.org

Beaver Creek Reserve offers:

-Nature Center, Citizen Science Center, Butterfly House, Hobbs Observatory, Eau Claire County Youth Camp, obstacle course, maple sugar shack, Eagles’ Nest Nature Store, and Wildlands Charter School

-Hosts a variety of public events, classes, camps and clubs for nature lover

-Provides opportunities for the public to help environmental scientists with research projects such as monitoring and mapping wildlife

-Miles of hiking, ski and snowshoe trails to explore the reserve year-round

-Furnished cabin accommodations for large and small camps and retreats for groups of all age

-Facility rentals for weddings, reunions and other events

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The Chinese Mystery Snail (CMS) is an invasive snail species that lives in waterbodies throughout Wisconsin. 💧This snail...
08/22/2026

The Chinese Mystery Snail (CMS) is an invasive snail species that lives in waterbodies throughout Wisconsin. 💧

This snail was given the name ‘Mystery Snail’ because it is one of the only snail species that gives birth to live young, while most other snails lay eggs.

The CMS can give birth to 30 new snails, 2-3 times a year, which makes them widely abundant and allows them to outcompete native snails for food and resources.

Some key identifiers when looking for CMS’s are a right-handed opening (when looking at the snail, the opening into the shell is on the right side), they are larger and wider than other snail species (up to 3 in tall), and they have a hard “trapdoor” (operculum) into their shell.

In partnership with the Urban Butterfly Initiative, join us in celebrating Butterfly Big Day 2026 by helping document bu...
08/21/2026

In partnership with the Urban Butterfly Initiative, join us in celebrating Butterfly Big Day 2026 by helping document butterflies around the world on Saturday, September 12. 🦋

Butterfly Big Day is an international event designed for people of all ages to find as many wild butterflies as they can, spread awareness of the importance of butterflies & other pollinators, and learn how we can help their populations.

Participating is easy!
📱Download the free iNaturalist app or use a web browser and access the iNaturalist website (inaturalist.org).
📸Take photos of free-living butterflies (non-captive or from a butterfly house)
🔍Submit your photos and findings to iNaturalist. (You do not have to be able to identify the butterfly)

For more information, links to brief iNaturalist tutorial videos, and to find the Butterfly Big Day regional partner in your part of the world, visit www.urbanbutterflies.org/big-day

To see all the Butterfly Big Day submissions, visit the iNaturalist project page during or after the event: www.inaturalist.org/projects/butterfly-big-day-2026

Join us for this year's Fall Party and Annual Meeting! 🍂We will announce 2025 volunteer and donor award winners, hear fr...
08/20/2026

Join us for this year's Fall Party and Annual Meeting! 🍂

We will announce 2025 volunteer and donor award winners, hear from our Naturalist, John Muetz, as we hear about updates to our maple sugaring program, including hands-on learning with school groups, planting a new sugar bush, and retiring our old sugar shack. We hope to see you there. 🧡

Our Early Bird discount ends on 9/17; be sure to register now-https://secure.qgiv.com/for/l5nyfj/event/fallpartyandannualmeeting2026/

All parking lots and driveways at Beaver Creek will be seal-coated today, which means we will be closing early today at ...
08/17/2026

All parking lots and driveways at Beaver Creek will be seal-coated today, which means we will be closing early today at 12:00 PM. The Butterfly House will also be closing at 12:00 PM.

Parking lots will be unavailable to park in for any out-of-hours visitation. We apologize for any inconvenience and are excited to welcome you back tomorrow. 🦋

Our honey is back! 🍯We’ve restocked our shelves with delicious honey made right here at Beaver Creek from the honey prod...
08/13/2026

Our honey is back! 🍯

We’ve restocked our shelves with delicious honey made right here at Beaver Creek from the honey produced by our very own busy bee hives. 🐝

Looking to stock your cabinets? Stop in, grab a jar, and taste a little bit of Beaver Creek sweetness.

Our summer Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) banding season has wrapped up! 🐦We captured 133 birds r...
08/11/2026

Our summer Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) banding season has wrapped up! 🐦

We captured 133 birds representing 27 species, 37 of which were recaptured birds that we had previously banded!

These "recaps" are very exciting, because it is how we learn how many birds survive from year to year, and how many are returning to the same breeding areas every summer. Our most common species this summer was the Gray Catbird, we caught 19 of them!

As the 2025/2026 AmeriCorps term is nearing its end, we would like to thank this year's members for a fantastic year of ...
08/10/2026

As the 2025/2026 AmeriCorps term is nearing its end, we would like to thank this year's members for a fantastic year of service! 🎉

From leading field trips and summer camps to coordinating volunteer projects, strengthening our partnerships with community organizations, and assisting with our bird banding programs... We couldn't do what we do without YOU! 🌱

Thank you to Ali Bowe, Erin McMichael, Grace Bowe, Lucy Soulliere, Mackenzie Miner, Peter Laskin, and Santiago Tabares Erices for all you've done this year for Beaver Creek Reserve! We wish you the best in your future adventures. 🥾

Join us in thanking our wonderful AmeriCorps crew and in wishing them well on their future endeavors if you see them at the Nature Center! 💚

Lake Lasagna? No! Curly Leaf Pondweed (CLP).Curly Leaf Pondweed is an aquatic invasive plant species that lives in most ...
08/08/2026

Lake Lasagna? No! Curly Leaf Pondweed (CLP).

Curly Leaf Pondweed is an aquatic invasive plant species that lives in most lakes in Wisconsin and is notorious for its lasagna noodle-shaped leaves. 🍝🌿

Although lake lasagna doesn’t sound very appetizing, it is an easy way to remember what curly leaf pondweed looks like. The leaves of the plant are crispy and wavy with serrated edges like a butter knife. These serrated edges are another easy tell when identifying CLP, and don’t worry, they won’t cut you.

What makes CLP harmful to our lake ecosystems is the timeline of its growth. CLP starts its growth in the winter when the lakes are frozen over, so it can get a head start and compete with the native plants, and by June it starts to die off. This creates extra dead organic matter, which may produce the conditions that cause algal blooms that can lead to lake closures.

Address

S1 County Road K
Fall Creek, WI
54742

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 4pm
Tuesday 9am - 4pm
Wednesday 9am - 4pm
Thursday 9am - 4pm
Friday 9am - 4pm
Saturday 9am - 4pm
Sunday 12pm - 4pm

Telephone

(715) 877-2212

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