The Asa Wright Nature Centre (AWNC) is a “Not-for-Profit” Trust established in 1967 by a group of naturalists and bird-watchers whose main intent was to protect part of the Arima Valley and preserve its natural state as well as to create a conservation and study area for the protection of wildlife and for the enjoyment of all. The AWNC was one of the first nature centers to be established throughout the Caribbean.

Comprising nearly 1,500 acres of mainly forested land in the Arima and Aripo Valleys of the Northern Range, the AWNC’s properties will be retained under forest cover in perpetuity, to protect the community watershed and provide important wildlife habitat.

The Center's main facilities are located on a former cocoa-coffee-citrus plantation, previously known as the Spring Hill Estate. This estate has now been partly reclaimed by secondary forest, surrounded by impressive rain forest, where some original climax forest on the steeper slopes have a canopy of 100-150 feet. The whole effect is one of being deep in tropical rain forest.

Locals as well as tourists visit the nature centre on a daily basis to par take in tours, hike or just have a picnic while enjoying the beauty Mother Nature has to offer.

Feeling for an educational adventure, picnic or a walk through an estate or flora and fauna.

Asa Wright Nature Center is the place to be.