We've all climbed up a tree, but have you ever climbed in a tree? Climb inside our oak tree's hollow trunk and branches, and count the rings to determine the giant tree's age. Dress up like a woodland creature and act all squirrely as you listen to animal sounds.

FUN FACTS

• Oak trees are struck by lightning more often than any other tree. It has been theorized this is one reason that the ancient Greeks considered oak trees sacred to Zeus, god of thunder and lightning.
  
  
• The average mature oak tree sheds approximately 700,000 leaves in the fall.
  
  
• The oak tree can take as long as 30 years to produce its first crop of acorns.
  

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Get a strong foothold before scaling this Maine mountainside--with nothing but your hands and feet to support you, you're going to need a solid grip. When your feet are back on the ground, be sure to visit the other stations in L.L.Bear's Discovery Woods.

Fun Facts

• Of the twenty-five highest mountains on Earth, nineteen are in the Himalayas.
  
  
• St. Bernard of Menthon, who built way stations for tired medieval travelers in the Alps, is the patron saint of mountain climbers.

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How does a Maine stream where you can change the currents float your boat? If you create the proper water flow, your boat will do just that--float!

Fun Facts

• Only about 1.6 percent of the water on Earth is fresh.
  
  
• If the Nile River were stretched across the United States, it would run just about from New York to Los Angeles.

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Pilot a yellow submarine, stand in a whale's mouth, and observe the salty sea creatures in our ocean aquarium.

Fun Facts

• Peanut oil is used for underwater cooking in submarines.
  Undersea fleets like it because it does not smoke unless heated above 450 degrees F.
  
  
• It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.
  
  
• Jacques-Yves Cousteau invented the aqualung, the self-contained device that supplies air under pressure for underwater divers.