What you can find at Robbins Park:

The 38 acre park is open to the community during daylight hours, for trail hiking, picnicing, and plant and animal observation. Sorry no pets or dog walking.

The park offers 10 interpretive signs created by Sara Smith and Lisa Fantini in 2009. Each sign displays environmental concepts, facts and messages. Read & teach others!

Come explore our forest, historic springhouse and manmade pond. Walk along the north branch of the Rose Valley Creek as it flows to the Wissahickon. Student drone footage of Creepy Pond (bm19)

Incorporate Nature and Technology

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WHAT'S NEW IN THE PARK?

Have you been getting your "Vitamin N" lately??

Richard Louv (www.childrenandnature.org) has studies on the physical, mental and social benefits of getting out in nature. Come out to get your nature fill and look for wild animals and birds throughout the different habitats of The Park. Just to name a few, we recently have seen juncos, cedar wax wings, pileated woodpecker, red belly and downy woodpeckers, deer, fox, chipmunks, squirrels, hawks, snakes, frogs, fish, turtles and many songbirds.

* NEW NATIVE PLANTINGS*

Thanks to our volunteers Glenn Meyer, Cindy Nuss, UD High school community study students and summer employees for removing over powering exotic species around the pavilion. Our staff and volunteers have been removing invasive species and planting new native shrubs to enhance your surrounding views; to restore the Park and attract wildlife. Aside from the manual labor we thank the Maple Glen Garden Club, the Township and the Friends of Robbins Park for plants or the monetary donations!

Summer programs are through Upper Dublin Township Parks and Rec Department.

Educate

Courses are designed to supplement and enrich Upper Dublin classroom lessons and are aligned with PA Standards. Kindergarten through twelfth grades and community groups may explore the natural world around them through observation and hands-on experience. The park fosters integration of other subjects such as field research, photography, creative drawing, creative writing, history, social studies, and language.

At Robbins Park Environmental Education Center, educators sponsor special peer instruction by high school students in the Environmental Education Club (EEC) who mentor sixth and second graders. The sixth graders develop team building skills and participate in a comprehensive environmental education camp for two days at the park. Second graders receive a classroom lesson on butterfly life cycles from high school students. EEC hopes to help guide the elementary students with topics of sustainability.

Be Green

Robbins Park also boasts many sustainable practices. Come see rain barrels in use, passive and active solar power, composting, recycling, rain garden, teaching vegetable garden and meadow! The vegetable garden has been arranged by companion plantings, hoping to promote integrated pest management techniques.