About

The Pennypack Environmental Center resides
on land originally stewarded by the Lenape, and was originally dedicated as a bird sanctuary in 1958.

Today, the Center has an outdoor amphitheater, exhibits, a reference library and campfire and picnic areas. We serve children, families, and adults of all ages through low to no cost public and group programming. We also provide summer employment to adults and teens.

Follow in the footsteps of artists John James Audubon
and Alexander Wilson (the fathers of American ornithology) by bird watching along Pennypack Creek.

Pennypack is a biodiverse, urban park where plants, animals, and fungi can be found year-round,
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Groups

  • Pennypack Environmental Center

  • Love Your Park

  • TreePhilly

  • Friend's of Riverfront North Partnership

  • Friends of Poquessing Watershed

  • Love Your Park Fall Weekend 2024

  • We Walk PHL

  • Love Your Park Week 2026

  • Philadelphia Parks Alliance

  • Journeywork

  • Cobbs Creek Park Ambassadors

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