Environmental education center · Brady Township, Butler County

Jennings Environmental Education Center

Jennings Environmental Education Center: A relict prairie at Jennings EEC
Photo: Clint, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

One of Pennsylvania's few remnants of prairie, bright with purple spikes of blazing star in late July and early August, and among the last homes of the rare eastern massasauga rattlesnake.

What you will find

  • Hiking trails
  • Cross-country skiing
  • Picnic areas
  • Wildlife and bird watching
  • Accessible trails

Hunting is permitted here in season. Check the state hunting calendar and wear blaze orange in fall and winter.

Make a day of it

Nearby

  • Moraine State Park

    State park · 7 miles away

    Lake Arthur, a favorite of sailors, fills a valley once scarred by coal mines and oil wells, now restored as rolling woods and fields with beaches, cabins and a lakeside bike trail.

  • McConnells Mill State Park

    State park · 9 miles away

    A gorge carved by glacial meltwater, its creek churning past giant boulders, with an 1800s gristmill, a covered bridge, the short trail to Hell's Hollow Falls and whitewater for experts only.