"Every day is Arbor Day at the fascinating World Forestry Center, a 20,000-square-foot homage to everything tree-related. Surrounded by the lush forest of Washington Park, the two-story discovery center and museum has a lodge-like exterior that opens into a soaring sunlit atrium featuring giant beams, totem poles, faux trees, fallen log tunnels, exposed roots, and (also faux) local wildlife like black bears, bald eagles, and itsy-bitsy burrowing owls. Within these (wooden) walls, you'll learn everything there is to know about local and international forests, pore over special exhibits about sustainable forest management, mass timber, and logging culture, marvel at the five-million-year-old petrified Giant Sequoia stump, and more." - Jen Stevenson
