Audubon Lights

Audubon Community Nature Center is lighting up early spring weekend nights (including the Total Solar Eclipse weekend) with a breathtaking half-mile trail of lights through the woods and around the ponds.

Your walk along a luminary-lit trail passes ponds reflecting the illuminated trees and the stars above. The trails look stunningly beautiful when lit up in the dark, and spring peepers can provide the perfect soundtrack to your nighttime nature walk.

You can purchase small LED lights at the entrance for additional fun – and to help locate children in the dark – as well as glasses that refract the light to make the trail even more amazing. Bringing cash makes purchasing easier.

The self-guided walk starts near the parking lot and travels just under half a mile. The path goes over flat terrain that includes a gravel road and grassy and paved trail. Since some sections are darker than others, a flashlight may be helpful.

Trailside forests and ponds glow with lasers, spotlights, rain lights, and more, creating a delightfully lit trail around the Nature Center.

Audubon Community Nature Center is located at 1600 Riverside Road, one-quarter mile east of Route 62 between Jamestown, N.Y., and Warren, Pa. You can visit the nearly 600-acre nature preserve, check in on the live birds of prey, and hike more than five miles of trails dawn until dusk daily for free.