“Every path has its puddle.”
~ English proverb
A puddle is all that remains of the morning rain as the afternoon sun begins to filter through the trees on what turned out to be a beautiful summer day June 27, 2022 in Henry’s Woods at Jacobsburg State Park.
Every path has its puddle ~ don’t let a setback get you down!
Summer, my most favorite of seasons, is gorgeous at Jacobsburg, which spans between Wind Gap and Nazareth, Pennsylvania.
The name Henry’s Woods is a nod to the Henry family, as Boulton, an early American industrial community, is in the heart of Jacobsburg National Historic District, once the site where the famous Henry Rifle was made, which lies almost entirely in the park.
Henry’s Woods offers very scenic hikes and the rest of the center grounds have multi-use trails.
Jacobsburg State Park offers environmental education programs from the preschool environmental awareness programs to high school level environmental problem solving programs, historical programs, teacher workshops and public interpretive programs.
The park surrounds the Bushkill Creek.
The original land for the center was purchased by the Department of Forests and Waters from the City of Easton in 1959. In 1969, additional land was purchased using funds from Project 70. This brought the total land area of the center to its present size of 1,168 acres.
For more information on the Henry family visit the Jacobsburg Historical Society’s website at http://www.jacobsburghistory.com/.
