49120 616.683.8653 or 616.695.6491 Fernwood is a non-profit botanical garden, nature center, and arts and crafts center located on 105 splendid acres. Winding woodland trails, gardens with colorful flower beds, tall-grass prairie, waterfalls and a waterwheel are interspersed throughout Fernwood. Throughout the year, Fernwood offers classes, workshops, gallery shows and lectures. Admission is charged for non-members. Children 12 and under are free.
Tours are available.
Range Line Rd north 1.7 miles. Along the Lake Michigan shoreline. As part of the 1,000-acre Grand Mere State Park, Grand Mere Nature Area offers a variety of settings for studying the outdoors, including sand dunes, beach woods, an old lake bed, a hemlock swamp and cranberry bog. Visitors will enjoy hiking or cross-country skiing the trails and observing a variety of native birds and mammals throughout the seasons. The Kal Haven Trail is a bicycle and hiking trail that follows the old railway line from South Haven to Kalamazoo, a total of 34.1 miles away.