WINNIE PALMER NATURE RESERVE
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SWEET DAYS OF SUMMER ARE HERE
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Be well with nature.
Explore SUMMER

OUR MISSION

We foster environmental stewardship through education, recreation, and conservation. ​

The reserve
our people
About Winnie
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Celebrate Poetry in nature with us

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Join us all spring to be inspired, create, and renew with some muse!
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TIME TO DISCOVER

VISIT OUR WAYSIDE EXHIBIT FOR
​a discover Card today!

Insects, birds, tracks, pond and more

LEARN WITH US
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SUMMEr NATURE CAMPS @ wpnr 

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KEEP BioBlitzING With Us

More than 301 species have been identified since April 2025!  Keep them coming! Join our Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve Get Outside Project and add to our more than 1,000 observations.
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Join the inaturalist community
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TOP 5 FUN SUMMER ACTIVITIES

Simple yet powerful activities you can do at home, at a park, or at a special spot, like Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve, can connect the whole family to the natural landscape.  Here are 5 of our favorite summer nature adventures to spark anyone’s curiosity of the world around them.
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DISCOVER OUR PROGRAMS

Our programs offer families and children wonderful ways to become connected with nature.

EARLY CHILDHOOD

School age

IN-SCHOOL

summer camps

Adults

Favorite WPNR summer spots

PALMER POND
Meet the frogs, dragonflies, salamanders, ducks, carp and more that call it home.  Bring and net to gently explore.  Be sure to be kind and respectful of nature at all times. No fishing or swimming please.
 
WETLAND BOARDWALK
Native marshes reside on the Reserve grounds.  You can find red-winged blackbirds feeding and perching among the cattails and see the show of the jewelweed in bloom this summer.
 
HONEY BEE YARD
The wild honey bees that call the Reserve its home can be spotted easily in the Pollinator Gardens and the Bug Hotel. Observe their activity all summer long!
 
GARDENS
Interesting heirloom vegetables, native flowers and more show all summer long at the reserve.  Stop to see and smell summer’s goodness.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fly Away
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NATURE EXPLORE CLASSROOM
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IS PERFECT FOR SUMMER

Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve has created their Nature Explore Classroom, Nature Playspaces, to allow children to create positive bonds with nature for long hours of unstructured play in areas including: Messy Materials, Music and Movement, Garden, Dirt Digging, Water, Action, Climbing, Sand, and Gathering. Each space offers a real experience with texture, shape, sound, or life that is found within the “walls” of the Reserve grounds.
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The Adventure Begins

Borrow a Pond Pail or Allagash Trail Pack at your next visit to explore!
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explore the seasons

There are so many ways to connect with nature all year-round.
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SUMMER Wisdom

"You shall see wonders."

~ William Shakespeare

“Let Nature be your teacher.”

​      – William Wordsworth


About WPNR

  • The Reserve
  • About Winnie
  • Our People
  • Our Animals
  • News
  • Policies

Our Programs

  • Early Childhood 
  • School Age 
  • Field Trips
  • Summer Camps​
  • Adults

Explore

  • Learning Barn
  • Nature Explore Classroom
  • Gardens & Wild Spaces
  • The Apiary
  • Lochry Blockhouse
  • Trail Map

Experience

  • Get Outside
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Spring
  • Summer

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Contact Us

(724) 537-5284
744 Walzer Way ​Latrobe, PA 15650
BARN HOURS:
Open Tuesday-Friday 10 AM – 4 PM
TRAIL HOURS:  Daily Dawn to Dusk
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  • Home Summer
  • The Reserve
    • Our People
    • Our Animals
    • Policies
  • about Winnie
  • Learn
    • Earth Day
    • EARLY CHILDHOOD
    • SCHOOL AGE
    • ADULTS
    • Field Trips
    • SUMMER CAMPS
    • GROW seeds
  • Explore
    • LEARNING BARN
    • Nature Explore Classroom
    • Gardens & Wild Spaces
    • The Apiary
    • Historic Lochry Blockhouse
    • Trail Map
    • WPNR Fairy Folk
  • More...
    • Plan Your Visit
    • #GetOutside
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Spring
      • Summer
    • Radicle 'Zine
    • Instagram
    • Shop
  • Give to WPNR