Fernwood Botanical Garden and Nature Preserve

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13988 Range Line Rd
Niles, MI 49120
Fernwood’s mission is to enrich people's lives by awakening and deepening their appreciation of nature. Public gardens like Fernwood are more important than ever in providing a safe haven of tranquility and natural beauty. We invite you to explore and enjoy Fernwood's vast 105 acres of gardens and natural areas. Fernwood protects at least 10 ecosystems and is a birder’s paradise. Visitors may enjoy natural areas with miles of walking and hiking trails, a reconstructed prairie, an arboretum, and cultivated public gardens that include an herb garden, Japanese garden, perennial border, rain garden, railway garden, nature adventure garden, hardy fern collection, and other special collections and gardens.

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4.544 reviews
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Jenny R.
9/7/2025

A beautiful place for a stroll in nature! They have a great mix of curated gardens, prairie trails, and forest trails that wind around ponds, streams, and the St. Joseph river. It was a perfect...

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Christina B.
5/24/2025

This place looked very cool! Unfortunately we only got as far as the shop and the restaurant in the Visitor's Center when they had a town wide power outage for a few hours and had to close. But...

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Wendy T.
6/26/2025

We've now been here a few times and I think Fernwood is a bit of a hidden gem. The grounds are very nice and include paved trails and nature trails. There is a building with windows where you...

Timothy S.
7/24/2025

Fernwood is a hidden gem. I highly recommend a visit to enjoy the outdoors. Well worth your time.

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Bernadette N.
10/22/2024

Moon Tree here!!! Apollo 14 launched in the late afternoon of January 31, 1971 on what was to be our third trip to the lunar surface. Five days later Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell walked on the...

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