Specializing in teaching sustainability and conservation, the GEHC also has a museum with both permanent and traveling exhibits, including the history of the Native Americans that inhabited the area centuries ago.  Its current exhibit is about living in space. Beginning in January, Petticoats and Slide Rules will illustrate the role of women engineers in the development of technology in the last 100 years.

There are eight miles of trails at the center, open all the time. Special guided nighttime hikes are scheduled monthly. In addition there is a varied ropes course, which includes ziplines.

For  Christmas, the GEHC has taken its Gingerbread House competition a little further than most – with its second annual Sustainable Gingerbread House Contest and Exhibit. Structures can be made from gingerbread, dog biscuit dough, bird seed cakes or other edibles, and may also include pinecones, twigs, leaves and twigs. They must also have at least three sustainable building elements included in the design, such as solar panels, rain barrels, green roof, etc.  Get your application in by Nov. 30 and your house within the next day or two.

The Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center is located on Clean Water Drive off of Plunket Rd, which is just west of Buford Drive (Ga SR 20) and the Mall of Georgia. Admission ranges from $7.50 for Gwinnett County adults and $10.50 for non-Gwinnett adults to $3.50 and $6.50 for children.  It is open from 9 to 4 Monday through Saturday (closed Sunday.) The Trails are open daily from dawn to dusk.