The Climbing Tree Children’s Museum, Montrose
Thursday, September 6th, 2007You wouldn’t know it from its low-key, strip-mall-like location on a main street in Montrose, Colorado, but The Climbing Tree Children’s Museum is a gem.
Designed for children from newborns to ten-year-olds, my kids (then ages 4 and 6) didn’t want to leave the museum–after we’d already spent nearly two hours there!
Building blocks, a play kitchen, a huge art room, dress-up area, treehouse-style book nook, puppet theatre and much more keep kids occupied. Scheduled programs like storytime allow local parents with young kids to meet each other. A resource room for parents of infants has parenting reference books and a nice rocking chair for feeding.
The storefront locale makes it appear as if there is only one large room to the museum–be sure to head back through the hallway to the other rooms. There’s so much to see and do!
Visit The Climbing Tree at 413 N. 1st Avenue in Montrose. Call for hours of operation: The Climbing Tree Children’s Museum: 970-240-TREE (8733)
Here are some photos of my family’s trip to the museum: (more…)
