Schuylkill Center For Environmental Education

Specialties

The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education inspires meaningful connection between people and nature. We use our forests and fields as a living laboratory to foster appreciation, deepen understanding, and encourage stewardship of the environment.

The center offers a huge variety of educational and enrichment programs for the adults, children, school groups and professionals. It also supports a cutting edge environmental art program, a land restoration program and native plant nursery, and a wildlife rehabilitation clinic. For daily visitors the Center offers four miles of hiking trails, an indoor children’s Discovery Center, a sensory garden, an art gallery (and outdoor art installations in season), and a gift shop.

History

Established in 1965.

The Schuylkill Center is one of the first urban environmental education centers in the country. Envisioning an «island of green» where city dwellers could experience and learn about the natural world, sisters Eleanor Houston Smith and Margaret Houston Meigs, along with their families, donated the extensive parcels of farmland and woods that make up the Center’s grounds today. As our founders intended, the Center is used by thousands of people each year to discover, explore, and study nature.