Riverbend Summer Camp at McKaig (Ages 5-10)

McKaig Nature Education Center offers pristine 91-acre woods that are well suited for hands-on nature discovery for this full-day, week-long summer camp. Camps will be led by Riverbend’s skilled educators to guide your campers in nature exploration through hikes, stream-stomping, bug-catching, and so much more. Camp themes this year include: Summer Camp Classics – think

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Riverbend Rangers Summer Camp (Ages 4-6)

Riverbend is offering nature camp for 4, 5, and 6-year-olds at The Wetherill School in Gladwyne, located just 10 minutes from Riverbend’s main campus. Each week has a different exciting theme, some of which are new or reinvented for this 2025 summer! This preschool location includes a forest hiking trail, log circle for songs and

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Stoneleigh, the region’s newest public garden, faces a possible seizure by the Lower Merion School District just as it opens its doors

Stoneleigh: a Natural Garden—the Villanova estate turned rustic public green space profiled in Grid’s May 2018 issue—is the most recent addition to the 36 public gardens that earned Philadelphia the moniker of America’s Garden Capital. But the uniquely beautiful green space wasn’t even open to the public yet when Natural Lands executive director Molly Morrison found

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