Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center

Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center is an environmental education facility in Spicer, Minnesota, offering programs for preschoolers, youth groups and schools, and adult groups across ponds, prairies, marshes, hills, and hardwood forest on its grounds.

Among its outdoor program offerings, Prairie Woods includes a Shooting Sports program and archery activities, alongside canoeing, orienteering, survival skills, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, and kicksledding. Programs are delivered as on-site day programs, outreach visits to schools, and multi-day residential programs, with custom-designed options available for groups.

The center also operates a Challenge Course featuring a 40-foot outdoor climbing tower, two Giant Ladders, two Flying Squirrel elements, an indoor climbing wall, and a mobile climbing wall, used for team-building and leadership programs.