Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center

My husband and I had our wedding Ceremony here. Beautiful grounds and scenery! The process for renting the space was quick and eas very affordable! Our guests loved walking the grounds before the ceremony. Wonderful picture opportunities too!

Five stars in an understatement !!! We love hiking here! The trails are well marked and very well maintained! There are plenty of different trails so even on busy weekends it never seemed crowded! We are frequent flyers throughout the entire year!
Our children have taken a summer camp here 2 years in a row and we are completely blown away with the things they are learning! Last year was reptiles and amphibians! This year is Wings and things for younger daughter and wilderness survival for my older daughter! They are both very excited about what they are learning! The educators are wonderful with the children!

This is a beautiful park popular with school groups, young families and pet owners. It’s easy to see why. It’s very close to all points in the Lehigh Valley, but you feel worlds away. The main attraction here is the wide trail that meanders through the woods and provides water access to Bushkill Creek.
It is a perfect place for toddlers with wide, gravel paved paths, and a creek to splash in. Nice bathroom facilities that flush. My only gripe is that there was poison EVERYWHERE. As in 75−80% of the non-​tree vegetation. I know it is a natural area but they would benefit with some poison control as it is absolutely just taking over. :/​
In all, we will be back but keep our toddler close as to not get in the poison.

Let me start off by stating the obvious that Jacobsburg is one sweet park.
We (I really as the lovely wife would never get caught dead walking in the freezing cold with snow/​ice on the ground) made a few trips to do some quality hiking during the early winter before the snow/​ice/​muck got out of control.
The scenery and trails here are all top notch.
You’ve got over eighteen miles of trails for winter cross country skiing, hiking, horse back riding and mountain biking. The PA Fish and Boat Commission also stocks Bushkill Creek annually with lots of trout and all 937 acres are open for the allowed big game hunting of deer, rabbit and squirrel.
From the website:
«The Jacobsburg National Historic District encompasses the eastern side of the park property and lies almost entirely within the boundaries of Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center. The district is on the National Register of Historic Places and its story is intertwined throughout the early development and growth of our nation. The history of Jacobsburg focuses on the Henry Family and their small arms industry, which played a key role in the American Industrial Revolution.
The first of the Henry gun makers, William Henry I, opened his gun factory in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1750. He became Armorer for the Braddock Campaign of 1755 and for the Forbes Expedition of 1758.
William Henry II established a small gun making shop in Christian Springs near Nazareth in 1778. In 1792, Henry II purchased land at Jacobsburg and built a gun manufactory. Henry II acquired the land from the heirs of Jacob Hubler, who in 1740 founded the community from which Jacobsburg draws its name. Only foundations remain at the colonial village of Jacobsburg and at the Henry’s Forge historic site.
Henry II erected a forge (bloomery) to supply the gun factory with iron to manufacture guns. In 1812, a larger manufactory was built in nearby Boulton in order to accommodate large government firearms contracts.
Three succeeding generations of Henrys produced small arms at Boulton until the late 1800s. Competition from arms companies using mass production techniques made the Henry’s handcraft technology obsolete.
The Henrys not only produced firearms for all of our nation’s major conflicts from the Revolutionary War through the Civil War, but they also were the primary suppliers of rifles for the largest American business enterprise of the early 19^th century, John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Company. The Henry firearm became the most prominent weapon of the western frontier due to its durability, accuracy and relatively low cost.
Boulton Historic Site
In the southern portion of the Jacobsburg Historic District is the Boulton Historic Site, which is administered by the Jacobsburg Historical Society.
Visitors can explore historic buildings and take a self-​guided trail that interprets the life of the Henry Family and the Boulton Gun Works. The Henry Homestead, which was built in 1812, houses the Pennsylvania Longrifle Museum. The nearby John Joseph Henry House was built in 1832.»
Jacobsburg also has a new $ 5 million dollar education center for school group classes & numerous community classes/​functions/​offerings that take place during the year.
This place is amazing and is well worth a visit year round.