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The Shack at Waneka Lake
The City Open Space program’s volunteer-staffed interpretive station at Waneka Lake and the Greenlee Wildlife Preserve, open weekend afternoons from September to April and weekend mornings in summer, with activities on local ecosystems, history and sustainability.
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The Shack is a small interpretive education center at Waneka Lake and the Greenlee Wildlife Preserve, staffed by the City’s Open Space volunteers. From September through April it opens Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 3 pm, and from May through August from 9 to 11 am, subject to volunteer availability and weather. The City recruits Shack volunteers through its Engage site.
At a glance nature · kids · free · volunteers · birds
Checked November 2, 2026 against lafayetteco.gov. Hours and phone numbers change fastest, so the business’s own page is the record. Report a correction
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WOW!’s thirty-year-old museum, the library’s storytimes and makerspace, the recreation center’s $4 youth admission, Waneka Lake’s boathouse and disc golf, the Coal Creek Trail, School’s Out camps on the days off, and the fall and winter dates. Where to go with children in Lafayette.
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