Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center is a regional center for environmental education and outdoor recreation located in beautiful Kandiyohi County in west central Minnesota.   Thanks for visiting our website!!   We provide an exciting array of hands-on learning adventures for all ages, as well as beautiful facilities for meetings and special events.   Give us a call and let us customize a program or event for your group. 

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Upcoming Events-   Look for us at the Kandiyohi County Fair, Raymond Harvest Festival, Prairie Pothole Day, NL Music Festival and more with the mobile climbing wall, big canoe  and/or the Yellow Boats Project. Stay tuned to PWELC 's Facebook page for updates on Yellow Boats Pop-up events.  You just never know when and where they might pop-up! And get your tickets now for our annual Evening Under the Prairie Stars fundraising event scheduled for Friday, Sept 7th at the Pavilion.    Music by the High 48s, a great local foods meal and fun silent auction items.   Join us for a good time for a good cause.    Tickets available at prairiestars.com or call Mari at 320-354-5894. Construction... How do we get to Prairie Woods??? Directions from the North:   From Hwy 23  turn West (right) on Hwy 9 into New London (Country Stop Gas Station & A&W on the corner). School on Left side - turn Left on County Hwy 40 NE (after the school) First rd on Left after school, County Rd 9 NE, turn Left Go past Prairie Woods Elementary School, Go past Living Word Church Turn Right on 157th Ave. NE - very curvy road, changes to 165th Ave. NE At the stop sign, go across Hwy 71 construction & continue straight. Also a curvy road At "T" intersection, take a Left onto 10th St.NE Follow 10th St. NE until you arrive a Prairie Woods Envionmental Learning Center on your Right. And, directions from the South: From Hwy 23 take the exit for County Rd 9 NE. Turn Left onto County Rd 9 NE First 4-way intersection, turn Left onto County Rd. 27 NE At the stop sign, go across Hwy 71 construction & continue straight on County Rd. 27 NE First road on your Right, 11th St. NE/29, turn Right - it is a gravel road At "T" intersection turn Left 10th St/122nd Ave. Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center is on your Left Click on "Programs and Events" above to check out our calendar of interesting and fun programs this summer.   An Evening of Music Under the Prairie Stars!  Plan now to join us on  Friday, September 7, 2018.   The High 48s will be back by popular demand to provide music for the evening.   Great Music, Great Food , Great People, Fun Silent Auction Items---- all for a great cause.  You're Invited!!!!  See our poster here. Prairie Woods on the go!   The Big Canoe, the  Prairie Woods Pinnacle- mobile rockclimbing tower, the enviro-puppet theatre and the Yellow Boats Project will be busy throughout the region this summer getting kids up off of the couch and into the great outdoors.   Click on the Facebook link to see photos of some of the planned and past activities and give us a call to schedule a PWELC program for your group or community festival.     Remember.... We Deliver!  If you can't come to us, we'll come to you. Give us a call if you would like to have the big canoe, portable climbing wall, Yellow Boats, xc skis, snowshoes, teambuilding, a variety of environmental ed. programs or the LORAX puppet show come to your school or community event. (ask about discounted Lorax performance due to an anonymous donor)   ***WE WANT YOUR SHOES!   Please donate your gently worn shoes to PWELC for our WorldWear fundraising project.  Ask us about how your school can easily earn Prairie Woods Bucks by collecting shoes for re-use and recycling. Click here for the World Wear Agreement.   Nothing at PWELC "just happens."  Good things happen only when people like YOU help to make them happen.   Please support our work with donations of time, talent or funds and join us for some of the exciting programs and events throughout the year.

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