1. Explore what is nearby
Use your location or search a place to discover nearby wildlife, ecosystems, parks, waterways, geology, weather, and even the night sky above you.
Explore • Observe • Collect • Build
Discover Your World. Then Build a Better One.
NatureQuest helps explorers of all ages connect with the natural world around them. Discover local wildlife and natural history of an area, learn how to help wildlife at home, participate in explorer challenges and quests, collect nature cards, and even take your shot at designing your own world. How far will your NatureQuest take you?
Free to use
No ads
Guest access
Installable web app
Use NatureQuest in your browser, install it on your phone's home screen for an app-like experience, and download an area pack before trips with weak signal.
Explore a place → discover what lives there → learn as you go
How it works
Explore a place, log what you find, and keep the adventure going.
NatureQuest uncovers the ecosystems and wildlife hidden in plain sight all around you, so each trip outside can lead naturally to a new discovery.
2. Log what you discover
Record plants, animals, fungi, rocks, weather, or sky observations. Your finds are saved in your field journal and can become collectible cards.
3. Follow quests and collect rewards
Choose activities, daily challenges, or longer quests that guide you back outside, build your collection, and give you new things to look for.
Made for real exploration
Make more of every hike, park visit, and backyard adventure.
NatureQuest helps answer a simple question: what can I discover here? Pull up a place, learn what makes it unique, and save what you discover as part of your own growing record.
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Discover what makes a place uniqueExplore nearby wildlife species, land features, waterways, geology, weather, and even celestial bodies overhead like stars and planets.
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Remember what you foundKeep a field journal of the species, rocks, weather, and sky observations you encounter over time.
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Always have a next stepQuests, activities, cards, and challenges turn “look around” into something more like a scavenger hunt.
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Built for the fieldInstall NatureQuest on your phone and download area packs before trips where signal may be weak.
GardenWild conservation game
Build a wildlife-friendly world, one habitat at a time.
NatureQuest includes a world-building game called GardenWild. Start with a garden, then help shape a neighborhood and city with native plants, water, shelter, and connected habitat.
As the game expands outward, you can see how many small local decisions can influence biodiversity at the community, regional, and eventually planetary scale.
Real exploration powers the game.
Observations, quests, activities, park visits, stewardship actions, achievements, and streaks can unlock more tools and opportunities — connecting what you do outside with the world you build in the GardenWild game.
Built for different kinds of explorers
One app. Different reasons to get outside and explore.
NatureQuest is fun and engaging for kids, useful when on a hike or exploring new areas, and structured enough to support a lesson, field trip, or homeschool activity.
Give curious kids a reason to look closer
Young Explorer mode keeps the experience simple and guided while kids discover nature, collect cards, complete challenges, and adopt wildlife-friendly habits at home.
Make each outing a quest
Hikers, travelers, and everyday explorers can learn what wildlife lives nearby, understand the landscape, and keep a personal record of what they observe along the way.
Take the classroom outside
Teachers and homeschool families can use quests, activities, observations, and field records to turn any backyard, schoolyard, park, or field trip into a structured educational experience.
For museums, parks, zoos, aquariums & schools
Make existing spaces more interactive
Turn a visit into an adventure
Turn your site into an interactive learning experience
Add a digital layer to your exhibits, trails, gardens, habitats, collections, and learning spaces. NatureQuest gives visitors a reason to stop, look closer, explore more of your site, and keep learning even after they are gone.
Add NatureQuest codes to exhibits, animal habitats, signs, specimens, gardens, trail stops, or other points of interest. Visitors can scan codes to trigger experiences, learn more about something, collect digital rewards, and more.
Create custom quests, observation challenges, themed learning trails, or field-trip activities that guide visitors from one discovery to the next without requiring a custom app of your own.
Ready to explore?
Your next NatureQuest can start wherever you are now.
Open the app and discover all the life hiding in plain sight around you right now.
NatureQuest is a project of Natural Learning Enterprises, LLC.
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Recent Updates (September 8, 2026)
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