“There’s
magic in the water that draws all men away from the land, that leads them over
hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.”
~ Herman Melville
~1819-1891
The
Bushkill Creek reflects summer’s beauty on a late June afternoon at Jacobsburg
State Park, which spans between Wind Gap and Nazareth, Pennsylvania.
At Jacobsburg State Park, Henry’s Woods offers very scenic hikes and
the rest of the center grounds have multi-use trails.
The
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.
