Cool Springs Environmental Education Center

Weyerhaeuser's Cool Springs Environmental Education Center is actively managed as a working forest to demonstrate forestry practices, while maintaining and enhancing wildlife habitat, air quality, water quality, as well as aesthetic, recreational and historical values.

Cool Springs provides a real world setting for hands-on learning about forestry, ecology and environmental issues. This "outdoor classroom" is located on approximately 1,700 acres of forestland along the Neuse River, about six miles up river from New Bern, North Carolina.

With virtually every forest ecotype of eastern North Carolina represented, we offer many activities and programs as well as workshops and special events to learn how the environment and forestry work together.

If you're interested in plants, animals and their habitats, we encourage you to plan a trip to Cool Springs soon!

Weyerhaeuser began operating in North Carolina in 1957.

Photos by Jeff Hall and Joe Young