Open house days set at Dungeness River Nature Center

By Sequim Gazette Staff • July 5, 2022 11:06 am
Photo by John Gussman/Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe Visitors get a look at the Dungeness River Nature Center’s 3-D Dungeness River watershed table relief map. The center hosts open houses on July 6 and 7.
Photo by John Gussman/Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe Visitors get a look at the Dungeness River Nature Center’s 3-D Dungeness River watershed table relief map. The center hosts open houses on July 6 and 7.

The community is invited this week to explore the (nearly) completed 5,900-square-foot expansion and remodel of the Dungeness River Nature Center.

The center, at 1943 W. Hendrickson Road, hosts an open house from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, July 6-7. Visitors will have the opportunity to explore the new rooms and experience the first three recently installed interpretive exhibits.

The center’s new features include the Salmon Room, a Dungeness River 3-D Watershed Relief Map, and Introduction/Pelagic Bird Exhibit.

Volunteer hosts will greet visitors and answer questions about the new facility and the opportunities available to all who enter its doors.

“Don’t miss this opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes tour of what the new Center has to offer for educational opportunities, rental options, and just viewing the wonder of the building’s design, which mimics the historic, 1915 railroad bridge,” board president Annette Hanson said.

The new gift and coffee shops will be open, featuring apparel with the new center logo and educational books, games, and toys.

‘Coffee at the River’

Owner Teresa Gordon was scheduled to have a soft opening for Hurricane Coffee Company’s new second location at the Dungeness River Nature Center on July 5.

The first week “Hurricane Coffee at the River” will open through Sunday, July 10, and the following week it will operate 9 a.m.- 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, and will be open during events like Nature Mart.

“As soon as we are staffed appropriately and have our systems set up, we will be open seven days a week,” manager Bethany Hiday said.