Plan Your Visit
What to Do at ICF

Take a Tour
From Memorial Day through Labor Day guided public tours are offered daily at 10:00 a.m., 1:00 and 3:00 p.m., and ONLY on weekends in April, May, September and October. Self-guided recorded tours are also available at the Visitor Center.

Exhibit Area
The International Crane Foundation is the only place in the world where you can see all fifteen species of the world’s cranes:

Whooping Crane Exhibit ­– Enjoy a pair of the planet’s rarest cranes within the setting of a Wisconsin wetland. Exhibits, maps and a short film tell the story of the Whooping Cranes. Covered theater seating.
Take a Guided Tour ‑ Learn about ICF’s captive breeding program and efforts to reintroduce an eastern flock of Whooping Cranes into the wild.

Spirit of Africa – View African cranes among wetlands and learn about ICF’s work to protect these fascinating birds. Enjoy covered viewing shelters, interactive exhibits, murals and sculptures.
Take a Guided Tour – Learn about the conservation challenges facing these fasciniating cranes and ICF’s exciting field work to protect cranes and their wetlands in Africa.

Johnson Exhibit Pod – Witness the grace and beauty of cranes from around the world.
Take a Guided Tour – Learn about the world’s tallest flying bird, the most critically endangered crane species and the species able to fly at altitudes of more than 35,000 feet!

Restoration Overlook
View the rich diversity of the Wisconsin landscape from shaded benches. Mounted binoculars allow a closer look at our off-exhibit crane breeding complex, Crane City.

Art Exhibit
Graceful and majestic, cranes have inspired artists for centuries. ICF's gallery features art created by children from around the world as part of ICF's Children's International Art Exchange and exhibits some of the finest in contemporary wildlife art.

Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Family Education Center and the Felburn Interpretive Room
This new center provides a focal point for exploring the important relationships between cranes and people. Visitors can directly control and move a high definition television monitor connected to a pan and tilt camera to view costumed care takers rearing Whooping Crane chicks for release into the wild. Other exhibits explain how ICF provides educational opportunities, builds partnerships, and uses poverty alleviation to address conservation challenges facing communities living with cranes. The center also houses a map of the flyways of the world's cranes and small video theater.

Nature Trails
To protect cranes, we must preserve and restore the natural communities on which cranes depend. Our site features over 100 acres of restored wetland, prairie and oak savanna. Visitors are welcome to explore the four nature trails that wind through these communities. Self-guided adult and children's trail tapes are available free at the Visitor Center.
 
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