Get Outside and Play!

We want to help you enjoy the nature in your own community! Through our winter lending library, individuals and families can borrow snowshoes, binoculars, and trail maps for FREE!  
Get connected with your family, exercise in a safe and fun way, and learn about local species. ​​

The Ottawa-Carleton Wildlife Centre is located in a core natural area in the Greenbelt. Core natural areas seek to protect the natural environment and the biodiversity living there. Our biodiverse trail area has been recorded to have 20 mammals, 130 birds, and 14 reptiles and amphibians—including some at-risk species!
    Funding for the Ottawa-Carleton Wildlife Centre’s Outdoor Education Workshop Expansion project is generously provided by the TD Friends of the Environment Foundation.

    Please fill in the pre-registration survey below. Please note that filling in the survey does not guarantee a spot or the rental of equipment.

    **NOTE**
    ​    Please double check your information before submitting. Ottawa-Carleton Wildlife Centre staff will be in touch with you to confirm a possible booking. The lending library may be closed depending on weather conditions and/or if there is adequate snow on the trails. 
    We will offer contactless equipment pickup and drop off outside the Wildlife Centre. Please park in the parking lot, not beside the Centre building.
The Ottawa-Carleton Wildlife Centre is a registered Canadian charity (#13224-0284-RR0001). Click here to make a tax-deductible donation.