Capture the experience of a lifetime during excursions with the Delaware Nature Society!
Customized itineraries
Expert naturalists and leaders
Small groups
leisurely pace
For over 30 years, the Delaware Nature Society has offered trips throughout the world. Our staff leaders coordinate with topnotch travel agencies and the country's/region's best naturalists to present experiences that cannot be matched by any other group. We invite you to review the information about ourÊ listings and contact Registar Melissa McDerby at 302-239-2334, ext. 134 or Email for detailed itineraries or other information.
Note: Most of our trips depart from Philadelphia, PA (air) or Hockessin, DE (van). If you would like to meet us at the destination, we will modify your costs. Please add a note to your itinerary request.
Nestled in the 900,000 acre Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia's Canaan Valley provides the ideal Nordic ski base with over 100 km of trails and 150 inch average annual snowfall that is great for novice and experienced cross country skiers alike. Experience a unique habitat created during the ice age with plant and animal life associated with climates much further north including snowshoe hare, grouse, mature spruce and hemlock trees. White Grass Ski Touring Center will provide lessons, rental equipment and guided excursions.
Join Jim White, Delaware Nature Society's Associate Director of Land and Biodiversity Management, on a trip to one of Central America's best kept biological secrets: the incredibly diverse tropical forests of Panama.
Nebraska in late March is the battleground between spring and winter. With these first winds of spring arrive hundreds of thousands of Sandhill Crane. Riverside farmland is transformed into crane feeding and dancing grounds, and the Platte itself becomes their night-time roost. This annual staging of half-a-million cranes along the Platte River is one of North America's greatest wildlife spectacles. Blinds will be used along the river to closely view cranes leaving their roost in the morning and coming back in the evening.
Each year spring crowns the Great Smoky Mountain National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee with a dazzling display of over 1,400 wildflower species including five species of trillium, stands of dwarf crested iris, beautiful showy orchis, carpets of foamflower, fringed and purple phacelia, and many, many others.
