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| The Pocono Environmental Education Center (PEEC), located within the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, is a special place for school groups, families, scouts, and everyone else interested in learning about the natural world in a beautiful and informal setting. PEEC offers environmental education, teambuilding, peer leadership, and recreation programs for over 20,000 people each year. Depending on the season, program participants may canoe on PEEC's ponds, enjoy interpretive hikes, learn about the wildlife surrounding PEEC or cross-country ski through old logging roads. Visitors can also enjoy 13-miles of hiking trails that are free and open to the public. Day, overnight, and weekend programs are available year-round.
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| Lakes & Ponds |
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Little Mud Pond |
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This lake is small with some deep spots and is very secluded. State owned with boat launch. Some fish you may catch there: Bass, pickerel and panfish. This area is stocked for trout season.
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Activities: Fishing
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| Trails |
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Fossil Trail |
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This 1.25 mile trail is blazed blue and begins with the Tumbling Waters Trail, 20 yards up the campus road across from the two group lodges.
The trail takes you past a vernal pool important for breeding amphibians, and eventually descends into a beautiful mature hardwood ravine. After...
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Activities: Hiking
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Ridgeline Trail |
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This 4.5-mile trail is blazed in yellow and begins at the forest edge behind Cabin #1, off of the north end of the main building parking lot, along with the Scenic Gorge Trail. The trail wanders through expansive oak-hickory forests, shady hemlock ravines and around numerous vernal wetlands and the...
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Activities: Hiking
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Scenic Gorge Trail |
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This 2-mile trail is blazed in red and begins with the Ridgeline trail behind Cabin #1, off the north side of the main building parking lot. The trail is moderately difficult with a few steep sections, and well worth the effort as the trail brings you into a deep, majestic hemlock forest following...
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Activities: Hiking
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Sensory Trail |
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This short, quarter-mile trail is intended to increase your sensory awareness. A rope guides blindfolded users around a short loop trail. Blindfolds can be picked up at the main office. This trail is located along PEEC's campus road just past the entrance to the Tumbling Waters and Fossil Trails.
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Activities: Hiking
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Tumbling Waters Trail |
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This 3-mile orange blazed trail begins along with the Fossil trail, across from PEEC's two group lodges, 30 yards up the campus road from PEEC's dining hall. At the end of the first mile, hikers are rewarded with a beautiful overlook at Hermits Hill of the Delaware Valley and Kittatiny Mountains in...
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Activities: Hiking
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Two Ponds Trail |
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This 1.5 mile trail is by far the most leisurely and flattest trail at PEEC and takes hikers through towering pine plantations and allows a view of two scenic pond environments. Follow the white blazes and the numbers that correspond to the interpretive guide you can pick up at PEEC's main building....
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Activities: Hiking
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