🐝WHAT: Wild Earth Backyard Bash

WHEN: Saturday, April 25th, 2026

WHERE: 6300 Cochran Mill Rd, Chattahoochee Hills, GA, 30263

ADMISSION: $6 per person (Free for 2yrs and under)
Free for members (Click here to view Memberships)

PARKING: Off the road parking with a walk to the entrance (we have a tractor ride on our property). Let our attendants know if you need accessible parking.
Additional parking lot with an easy ~5 minute walking path to the nature center is located at:

Chattahoochee Hills Charter School
9670 Rivertown Rd, Fairburn, GA 30213

Scroll down for OVERFLOW PARKING INSTRUCTIONS.

VIBE: A spring festival that mixes art and wildlife. We will have an arts and craft fair as well as wildlife encounters throughout the day along with many outdoor, artsy, and science-y activities. Family-friendly and open to all. It’s choose-your-own adventure so come anytime. There is fun for all ages–there are activities for children and adults alike!

THINGS TO DO: Admission includes arts and crafts, canoes, hiking trails, live animal encounters and talks throughout the day, scientist and artist booths, nature areas, and more. Additional funds may be used to purchase items from our gift shop or the local vendors.

FOOD: All-day with PONKO Chicken (See Menu Below)
We have various eating areas including a picnic pavilion, campfire area, nature area benches, tables and chairs, wrap-around porch, and hike-able spots where you can picnic if you so choose!

🌼NATIVE PLANT-SALE
All-day with the Georgia Native Plant Society. Come any time, and you are welcome to bring your wagons and boxes to stock up. You can let our attendants know if you need to swing to the front with your car to load up.

🧶ARTS & CRAFTS ALL-DAY

Craft-table and Community Mural: All-day for all-ages

Artist Booths: 9bandedcreative, Field Guide To Embroidery w/Jessica Kemper, Wildlings and Endlings w/Chantelle Chapman, Photography w/Harriet B. Harris

Crochet items by Yarn Okra (Locally-made by a BCNC Naturalist; 100% natural fibers; 50% of all proceeds go to BCNC)

Silent Auction all-day until 3:30pm (100% proceeds go to BCNC’s environmental education efforts)

🦉PROGRAMS TO CATCH
LIVE Bird of Prey Show with Nature’s Echo Environmental Education
12pm and 2 pm

Native Plant Talks (20 minute chats with native plant experts)
Planting for Pollinators @ 12:30
The Importance of Native Pollinators @ 2:30

Read-aloud of “Knight Owl” Picture Book @ 1:00 pm

Monarch Talk with Monarchs Across Georgia @ 3:00 pm

🦇ARE THERE LIVE ANIMALS? Yes! We have resident rescued wild and exotic animals of all kinds. Our spring festival highlights will feature birds of prey (including our resident great horned owl), pollinators and their broader ecosystems (which includes our resident native and nonnative bats). We also have a wide variety of reptiles, amphibians, and arthropods to meet.

HOW TO PREP FOR THE DAY: Come dressed comfortably with good shoes for outdoor activities. We have spaces inside and outside in the shade to chill. Stay fueled up with food trucks, but you can also bring your own picnic. Some stay for 3+ hours and make a day of it; there’s so much to do! We have accessible pathways.

CAN’T MAKE IT? Our animals reside with us year-round. Come visit us anytime we are open Tues-Sat from 11am-4pm. We have two more big festivals this year: REPTILE RALLY on June 27t) and a BAT FEST on Sept 12th and smaller opportunities for fun programs in between.

OVERFLOW PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
Park in the main lot of Chattahoochee Hills Charter School (by the big yellow two-story building)
Walk toward the CHCS Hillside Farm and follow the gravel road to the trail behind the main building.
Bear *straight* on the trail until you get to a sign that indicates to bear right and you will enter the center by the bird compound
Check in the main entrance at the gift shop to get your wristbands and HAVE FUN!

Note: This trail is not accessible to wheels.
If you are in need of additional accessibility, or for pick up and drop off, please inform our attendants at the main gate.