European visitors arrived in the area over 300 years ago and wrote about the hospitality of the natives. The flags of France, England, Spain and the United States have flown over this region thus the name City of Four Flags.
Fernwood Botanical Garden and Nature Preserve is a 105-acre nature preserve with surrounding gardens, a railway garden, woodland trails and tallgrass prairie. The visitor center includes gallery shows, exhibits and a fern conservatory.
Winter pond at Fernwood Botanical Garden & Nature Preserve in Niles, MI.
Fernwood Botanical Garden & Nature Preserve in Niles, MI.
Address: Fernwood Botanical Garden and Nature Preserve, 13988 Range Line Road, Niles, MI 49120-9020, United States
Phone: 1 (269) 695-6491, Fax: 1 (269) 695-6688
Hours:
May 1 to October 31: 10am-6pm; Sun:12pm-6pm; Closed: Mon
November 1 to April 30: 10am-5pm; Sun:12pm-5pm; Closed: Mon, Mon
Always closed on: New Year's Day (January 1), Thanksgiving - USA (4th Thursday, November ), Christmas - Christian (December 25), Day after Christmas, St Stephen's Day, Boxing Day (December 26), New Year's Eve (December 31), Christmas Eve - Christian (December 24), Easter - Christian
The carriage and boiler houses of the Henry A. Chapin home were joined together and remodeled to form the Fort St Joseph Museum. The Chapin mansion was built in 1882.
The Museum has a wide variety of collections that range from the town's beginning in 1691 to the story of the Underground Railroad to pictographs drawn by Chief Sitting Bull.
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Fernwood Botanical Garden and Nature Preserve, Niles
Fernwood Botanical Garden and Nature Preserve, Niles
