“The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
~Robert Frost
~ 1884-1963
~ Four Time Pulitzer Prize Winner
~ “Stopping by Woods
on a Snowy Evening”
~ 1923
A mid-March snowfall blankets the trail with
late winter beauty in Henry’s Woods at Jacobsburg State Park, which spans between Wind Gap and
Nazareth, Pennsylvania.
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.
