
TRAILSIDE NATURE & SCIENCE CENTER
Location
Mountainside, New Jersey
Owner
County of Union
Trailside’s Visitor Center, Houses 4,500 square feet of interactive, state-of-the-art exhibits, featuring a towering 34-foot American beech tree exhibit which fills the building’s atrium. Other features include four classrooms, a multi-purpose room, a media center, gift shop and an auditorium with seating for more than 250 guests. Educational exhibits include:
• Media Center
• Night Theater
• Edge Habitat
• Geology of the Watchungs
• Wetlands
• Forest Community
• Lenape Native Americans

