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    Springfield Conservation Nature Center

    4.5 (20 reviews)
    Open 8:00 am - 8:00 pm

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    Kristi N.

    This is FREE and fun and beautiful most days. Easy walks on good trails of various lengths. 'Tis a pleasure to be in the Ozarks.

    Donna L.

    I had no idea that this sanctuary existed! This place is awesome! I could not help but notice at one bridge over the water, there were beer cans in the water. I hate that this has to happen in a nature center. :( Everything else was so beautiful!

    Jeff L.

    Love this gem of a park. I live in Los Angeles and have been visiting my family for a decade, but have only now discovered this place, less than 2 miles away. Great for a peaceful walk (what I did), but I saw plenty of joggers both in the morning and the evening.

    Randi F.

    Nice trails ! And free! Feel safe when I walked.. Very clean and staff is super friendly.

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    It's really great place for family or friends who attend to have fun :)

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    Phelp's Grove Park - The rose garden at Phelps Grove Park is a must-visit.

    Phelp's Grove Park

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    I love this Springfield park perhaps most of all. I love to trot down here for a good run, and…read moreevery time I do, I feel like I see something new. I see birthday parties; I see families, couples, people walking their dogs; I see LARPers (look it up); I see potlucks; I see high school science projects; I see track teams; I see lone runners. This is a great place to see the Springfield community at their happiest and most relaxed. Not to mention it offers an impressive amount of amenities: a few tennis courts, a full playground, BBQ pits, a sprinking of permament art installations, and a very nice, covered communal area. This is a very old park, and the practicality of it paired with all the old stone work and giant Oak trees makes for a unique place to stop and unwind alone or with your favorite people/pets. A few other reasons why Phelps rocks: it's in a gorgeous, well-established neighborhood full of interesting and well-maintaned forever homes and it's right next to the beloved art museum. It also has a righteously awesome butterfly garden (you'll see it if you look in the direction of the museum from the park itself), and walking through it in the summer is legitimately like walking in a dream. It's quite lovely. One word of advice I can provide is that this park is also historically a not-so-good place to visit after nightfall, as most Springfield parks are. Get your recreational fix in before sunset and call it a day, unless you're with a group.

    Phelp's Grove Park is always a winning park to hang out at, and I was most recently there for Yoga…read morein the Park. How perfect is Phelp's for that kind of thing? There is a concrete pad that fits dozens of people for the event. It was really perfect and I absolutely enjoyed myself and the Yoga. As for the rest of the park, there's a lot of room to run around and have fun for both kids and dogs, there are tennis courts and picnic spots, and you just really can't go wrong with an art museum bordering one side.

    Springfield Conservation Nature Center - parks - Updated May 2026

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