Centro Natural Tidelands 4-H

Experiencia fantástica: Great little educational center. Friendly staff.

Experiencia fantástica: Did their 2 hour marsh kayak tour. It was hot and AMAZING. Our guide was so kind and knowledgeable throughout the tour. Inside, they have a variety of animals such as turtles, snakes, stingrays, and such in little tanks to view. Note : This location is cash only. (But there's a fuel station <5 minutes away with atm)

Experiencia fantástica: Amazing! Staff knowledgeable and passionate about the subject matter.

Experiencia fantástica: kids loved it, staff is super friendly and helpful

Experiencia fantástica: What a fun and memorable adventure! We learned so much during the tour and were lucky enough to spot a dolphin and even a couple of small sharks. It was both exciting and educational—a perfect activity to add to your vacation. Highly recommend!

Experiencia fantástica: Wonderful tour at high tide! Very knowledgeable guides who have a great passion for protecting the marshes. We’ve taken two tours here, both experiences were great, and they both had different aspects to them.

Experiencia fantástica: Nice experience

Experiencia positiva: A small but meaningful center.. There are turtles, gators, and snakes to see. Some are there temporarily and released into their natural environment eventually. Oh, yes, there's a sea turtle!!

Experiencia fantástica: Beautiful place with lots of places to explore nearby.

Experiencia fantástica: Set up a group tour and totally enjoyed Exhibits. It is a small place with good information and intentions.

Experiencia fantástica: Great little place to see some of the islands wildlife. They had baby alligators and a young sea turtle. I definitely recommend checking this place out when visiting the island!

Experiencia fantástica: Excellent little nature center. Turtles, snakes and gators. Great people who spent time with us to give extensive info. If you're on the island check them out!

Experiencia fantástica: Great little place to check out some of the animals there! Then canoe with the alligators!

Experiencia fantástica: The staff were amazing and you can tell they care a lot for the animals. For 5 dollars a person we got to see the information employees fed the turtles, tortoises, sea turtle and the baby alligators!

Experiencia fantástica: Love this place! Worth the cost, educational, and fun! They always show us an animal up close

Experiencia fantástica: Absolutely loved this!! The young man we had as a guide was awesome, full of interesting information and passion for what he was doing!! Definitely recommend for anyone with kids, all of mine loved this, ages 16 to 4.

Experiencia fantástica: Very educational and fun!

Experiencia positiva: Visited this week with the kids and their grandmother - while they loved seeing the critters, we all felt very unwelcome and rushed through the exhibits. The younger man that was on site was wonderful and very knowledgeable, even making sure we got to see the sea turtle. However, the older woman on staff was extremely rude and unwelcoming. I’ve been going here since I was a kid and this was my first bad experience due to her. She seemed like she didn’t want anyone there and spoke to us so rudely that the kids didn’t feel welcome looking through the exhibits. I would definitely not go back if she is still there. As a former member of 4-H myself (and with a teen in 4-H currently) it was disheartening to see a staff member act so rude and cold towards excited visitors. Big kudos to the younger male staff member who made sure we left with smiles though! He’s the only reason we did not leave 1 star.

Experiencia positiva: $5 a person and only takes cash for admission and the gift shop. It takes about 20 min to walk through and see various turtles, snakes, rays, etc.

Experiencia fantástica: Very informative

Experiencia positiva: Great little museum with educational displays of local Jekyll Island marine animals such as turtles, crabs, and fish.

Experiencia positiva: Very cool place to see all the animals that live in the areas around Jekyll island! They harbour a lot of species here that are native to the area. It's small, but the staff are very knowledgeable, its only 5$ p.p. and they showed us the feeding of the animals. Small baby gators, all kinds of fish, rays, snakes, turtles, tortoises. Plenty of free parking too.

Experiencia fantástica: Took a group of students for a field trip. All of the adults were patient and answered the many questions the kids had and made the experience fun and educational. They lived going to the marsh and especially getting to touch the various animals. Would recommend to other school groups.

Experiencia positiva: Awesome little exhibit. Definitely worth the $5 entry fee! We attended a presentation with learning about all the creatures and got to pet a few. The younger lady that was helping with it does not like her job at all and really doesn't like teaching, especially to younger children. She was very rude and monotone throughout the whole thing. And of course when we decided to leave the nicer older lady started teaching, she actually seemed to care. Other than that the exhibit is awesome. Definitely more for older kids though.

Experiencia fantástica: Amazing, informative facility with live creatures to view and learn about.

Experiencia fantástica: We love to visit Tidelands! There are so many local animal exhibits and a lot of regional information! This place is perfect for a homeschool trip or just something to see while on vacation. Last time we were there, a fee of $5 was charged, but I would say the tour is worth the $5 donation to the cause.

Experiencia fantástica: I am amazed they have a great place it is very nice and clean great tours It's just great never seen a place quite like this.

Experiencia fantástica: Its a hidden gem on Jekyll Island; definitely check it out

Experiencia negativa: Not very stimulating enclosures for the fish and reptiles kept there. The sea turtle was the saddest as he kept bumping his face up against the glass. The entire facility is past due for an update. The employee was very knowledgeable and answered all questions thoroughly.

Experiencia fantástica: Friendly staff, nice little educational place. We go for the fishing and biking.

Experiencia positiva: Well. Since it is educational, I gave extra stars, but $5 per person when there are way more fish and reptiles at petsmart and it was self guided.

Experiencia fantástica: A lot of information about the animals. It's worth the $5/person.

Experiencia fantástica: Arrived right before they closed. Lovely place and such a friendly staff. Hope to come back when we have more time to explore.

Experiencia fantástica: Such a treat. This was a unexpected stop and it was perfect educational experience

Experiencia fantástica: I had a great time learning about the animals. The staff was fantastic. Kids learned even on vacation and had fun.

Experiencia fantástica: Nice place

Experiencia fantástica: Really recommend a trip if you're staying on the island, especially for kids and others who have an interest in wildlife. Exhibits are informative and well-maintained(and named!). We've gone multiple times and always enjoyed it(Even if sometimes it can be especially packed in the smaller building size, and can get pretty warm) and this time, we especially enjoyed the tour and the host, Rachel, was wonderful! She was informative, especially kind and even gave behind the scene looks at some animals. And for just $5, and for a good cause, it's a nice little thing to do on the island, enjoying animals *and* learning.

Experiencia positiva: Ok, 5.00 dollars to get in. Very small, but they really need to upgrade and clean the tanks so we can see them better. The ladies are very friendly and helpful. They also have kayaking, and that's fun. Just get the inside cleaned up some. And of course, there is no military discount. For 5, go check it out, not like it was 5 years ago.

Experiencia fantástica: You have to trail through the marsh. Although short, definitely made this field trip a special one.

Experiencia positiva: Very educational

Experiencia fantástica: Marvelous! So many specimens to touch and see. Lots of well written information that is relevant to what is seen around us

Experiencia positiva: It was full cute aquatic animals.

Experiencia fantástica: So much fun! The staff were extremely friendly and told us all about the animals! We loved the loggerhead!

Experiencia positiva: Looks okay, we didn't do a tour

Experiencia fantástica: Another "must do" when visiting Jekyll Island. We try to always support them whenever we can!

Experiencia fantástica: Completely enjoyed the instruction and marsh walk.

Experiencia fantástica: We appreciate all work that goes into this great resource for wildlife studies.

Experiencia fantástica: My family loved the guided kayak tour!

Experiencia fantástica: This place was great. Holly gave a really informative tour and she was also careful to work with our respective ability levels. Also, there really are manatees! So neat! Would absolutely do this again.

Experiencia fantástica: We Had a wonderful time. Dawn was so personable and friendly. I would recommend this place to everyone. Can't wait to return

Experiencia positiva: It's nice but it could've been better. The guide didn't seem so enthusiastic when telling us about the animals. Also a lot of enclosures where empty.

Experiencia positiva: It was really informative and we had a chance to see some sea turtles but I felt like the experience didn't justify the price of entry, although the cost does support turtle conservation.

Experiencia positiva: Some small exhibits and a big loggerhead and snake hybrid . Nice worker

Experiencia positiva: Very neat educational opportunity while visiting JI.

Experiencia fantástica: Wonderful staff.

Experiencia positiva: Great experience

Experiencia fantástica: Great Facility, the people were sweet, the water was nice (and full of oysters lol) there were a lot of cute little crabs lol I reccomend this for a short tour or of you just want to go out on the water for fun. There is also a turtle there, his name is Nugget and he's adorable

Experiencia fantástica: Amazing place with awesome staff. Highly recommend. Loved getting to meet all of the reptiles, hands on.

Experiencia negativa: The hours are different. The website says they open at 11 am to 3 pm. When we arrived there was a sign that 9 am to 4pm. As we walked to the ticket window. We saw a other sign that had 10 am to 5 pm. Then there was another sign saying they are opening at 12:30pm to 3pm. The only good part was watching the fish jump out of the water and seeing the alligator.

Experiencia fantástica: Informative and fun!! Nice guides!! My first kayak ride!!!

Experiencia positiva: Great for student groups as you can have an educator do presentations with live animals on the back dock. If you’re a random walk-up it would likely be a little of a let down, so call ahead to see about having group presentations.

Experiencia fantástica: Wonderful experience with two littles- they were fascinated with all the animals. Kayleigh was very patient and kind with them!

Experiencia fantástica: Top notch! Our first visit was back in early 2000 with my daughter’s 2 day class visit. The original location was a former motel that they utilized for housing school groups along with a small marine science building that housed among many beach artifacts including sands from all over the world. Our hike through Jekyll Island’s maritime forest and our marsh visit remain a highlighted mark in time, I still look for sea pickles to eat while walking the edges of the marsh. Since that time they have built a new facility with a magnificent educational center and renovated the housing. Most of all they still teach marine science classes to new generations of children and give them a education about the beach, marsh, maritime forest and the ocean.

Experiencia fantástica: Wonderful little museum with local wildlife on display

Experiencia fantástica: Nice, quiet exploring and fishing.

Experiencia fantástica: Very nice museum of aquatic creatures. The ladies who work here are very nice and we were able to see some of the animals being fed, including an Alligator.

Experiencia fantástica: Loved our kayak tour. Very knowledgeable guide made it informative and fun!

Experiencia fantástica: Really great kayak tour.

Experiencia fantástica: Small place but very much worth visiting. The people who work there were very helpful and knowledgeable.

Experiencia fantástica: Took a great guided kayak tour through the 4-H Tidelands Nature Center!

Experiencia fantástica: Really cool kayak tour.

Experiencia fantástica: Great place to see local wildlife and you support the animals, the cause and learning.

Experiencia fantástica: They different types of snakes, and other marine life. The ladies working there were really nice and knowledgeable. Kid friendly

Experiencia positiva: Very friendly staff and very informative about the island and the wildlife.

Experiencia fantástica: Small center, perfect for an hour or so and little ones. Staff was friendly. It was fun learning the names of everything we've been seeing on the beach.

Experiencia negativa: We paid and were pointed in the direction of where to go. Its 100% a self guided tour and takes about 10-15 minutes to get through. There's no interaction from the staff other than them asking if you're doing okay when they cross your path and one lurking behind you to ensure you're keeping your hands out of the cages. We have a local nature center at home where the staff always offer information and love to education about the animals and the area so that's what I'd hoped for here.

Experiencia fantástica: Would recommend this center if you visit Jekyll. Don't forget the Sea Turtle Center as well

Experiencia fantástica: We loved this place! Very affordable! They staff were really friendly. It wasn't busy at all! Highly recommended!

Experiencia positiva: Quite interesting research and live fisplays.

Experiencia fantástica: We went kayaking with Dawn, and it was amazing. We had a great time, learned a lot about kayaking and some of the wildlife on Jekyll, and felt safe. 10/10 would go again!

Experiencia positiva: It's a bit small inside but the staff is friendly and the critters are interesting.

Experiencia fantástica: Had a great time! It was a wash out of a day, but the staff was great entertaining our girls. Very knowledgeable and related the material well to us. The sea turtles took our hearts away. Its a smaller location but had a fun time.

Experiencia fantástica: A wonderful nice place to go visit.

Experiencia positiva: A few cool sculptures and pretty view over the lake

Experiencia negativa: Second visit to Jekyll Island and we made time to stop by the Tidelands Nature Center on Thursday around 1030. On the door the sign said open but you had to check in at the window first. Went to the window and saw a young lady in the back speaking to someone. We knocked on the window and were ignored. Waited a bit thinking they would finish their conversation and then knocked again. Young lady walked out of our view and we thought she was coming to either the door or window. Nope, waited almost 10-mins and nothing. Lots of other stuff to do on the island then waste time wondering if these folks want to do their job.

Experiencia positiva: Excellent, well cared for native animal live species. We didn't get to try the kayak trip in the saltwater marsh but will next time!

Experiencia fantástica: Very well displayed and the staff is very knowledgeable. And super friendly.

Experiencia fantástica: It was a lovely time. High tide caused us to use our muscles a little morw than we expected, but we were,able to see the manatee cone up for air and the weather was very nice. Our guide was super sweet and very informative.

Experiencia fantástica: Just absolutely a beautiful place to go to get a away and enjoy the scenery

Experiencia fantástica: Lots of fun

Experiencia fantástica: Very interesting and informative. They have turtles of various types and a Loggerhead that will be released out in the wild. Staff will answer all your questions.

Experiencia fantástica: Fun hands on education for all ages.

Experiencia fantástica: my homeplace

Experiencia positiva: Just getting ready for the season .Friendly Staff .

Experiencia positiva: Looking for a beach buddy treasure

Experiencia negativa: Run down sad compared to other nature centers in the area. Needs to be updated and better funded

Experiencia fantástica: the best part of out week. it was informative and the people were knowledgeable

Experiencia fantástica: Peaceful, relaxing and enjoying.

Experiencia fantástica: You got to do this trip wow. Megan was so informative this is a five-star operation.

Experiencia fantástica: Great place to visit....