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The Trexler Nature Preserve is an 1,108-acre county park (448 ha) owned and maintained by Lehigh County in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. [2] The preserve is situated in Lowhill Township and North Whitehall Township and the land that comprises the preserve was originally purchased between 1901 and 1911 by local industrialist General Harry Clay Trexler.
Shelter House is a historic home located in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. Constructed in 1734, it is believed to be the oldest continuously occupied building structure in both Lehigh County and the Lehigh Valley and among the oldest still-standing building structures in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [2]
Lehigh Parkway is a large, 629-acre public park along the Little Lehigh Creek in Allentown, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. It is the most prominent park in the city and follows the Little Lehigh Creek southward for three miles from center city Allentown to Cedar Crest Boulevard in neighboring Emmaus.
Gov. Tom Wolf announced on Twitter Tuesday three new additions to Pennsylvania’s 121 state parks. The announcement comes soon after the passing of the state budget, which included $56 million ...
Emmaus (/ ɛ ˈ m eɪ. ə s / em-AY-əs) is a borough in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States.As of the 2020 U.S. census, it had a population of 11,652. [3] Emmaus is located in the Lehigh Valley, the third-largest metropolitan area in Pennsylvania and 68th-largest metropolitan area in the nation.
Admission to all Pennsylvania state parks is free, although there are fees charged for use of cabins, marinas, etc. Pennsylvania's state parks offer "over 7,000 family campsites, 286 cabins, nearly 30,000 picnic tables, 56 major recreational lakes, 10 marinas, 61 beaches for swimming, 17 swimming pools" and over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of trails.
Trexler brought in B. A. Haldeman, a nationally known city park consultant, to Allentown, and Haldeman provided the plans for the development of the growing city. J. Franklin Meehan of Philadelphia was the landscape architect who laid out many of the city's first public parks. [1]
Northwestern PA: website, administered by Slippery Rock University, 205 acres, residential and non-residential programs for schools Millbrook Marsh Nature Center: State College: Centre: Central PA: website, operated by Centre Region Parks & Recreation, 62-acre site consisting of a 12-acre farmstead area and an adjacent 50-acre wetland area