Not everyone wants to get involved in the same way. On this page we present different options to encourage you to get involved in our cause. You can get involved in any number of ways. We could use help on one of our committees, with fundraising, clean up, maintenance, planning events, and so much more. You can donate your money, gifts or services.

Become a member of the Manchester Parks Foundation and serve on the Board of Directors.

You choose - it's all up to you.

Charlotte's Quest Nature Center is a Manchester Town, Manchester Elementary School, and community owned facility teaching environmental awareness, appreciation, and the management of our land and natural resources through field trips, programs, and activities. All funding comes from donations, grants and membership dues.Your contribution provides an outdoor learning area, Interpretive Building, hands-on learning materials, and an environmental educator for Charlotte's Quest Nature Center. A place that is close enough for travel for special needs children, an instructor with more advanced environmental knowledge providing learning activities for the teachers and students from Manchester Elementary School and other area schools and at least one program or activity per month for the general public.

Charlotte's Quest is under the direction of the Manchester Parks Foundation and the Town of Manchester. Charlotte's Quest Nature Center is operated by volunteers and one paid staff member, the Naturalist, and is maintained by donations, grants, memberships, and in-kind gifts. No government funding is received.

The Nature Center's Interpretive Building will be open the:

Our 4 1/2 miles of trails, Walnut Pond, the Stream of Life, the natural springs and forests are open everyday from dawn until dusk. Feel free to park at the gate and to walk in during the hours that the Interpretive Building is not open.

It is the mission of the Manchester Parks Foundation to be stewards of the environment by protecting the watershed area and our precious natural resources, by teaching environmental education to the public, by the restoring of the native plants and animals, and by maintaining a diverse natural world.

The Manchester Parks Foundation is the caretakers of Charlotte's Quest Nature Center and Pine Valley Park.