Let's Be Friends
FOW relies on member and volunteer support to help care for the 1,800-acre Wissahickon Valley Park for people and wildlife alike. Visit and get involved today!
Plan Your Visit
Activities
Bike, fish, hike...
Maps
Getting to the Park...
Plants & Wildlife
A natural habitat...
News & Events
Wissahickon Valley Park Winter Curfew
Effective Dec. 1, 2018 through March 31, 2019, the Wissahickon Valley, East and West Fairmount Park, Cobbs Creek Park, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park, Tacony Creek Park, and Pennypack Park areas of the Philadelphia Parks &...
Up At The Tree House
Sioux Baldwin: An Appreciation By Trish Fries, Environmental Education Program Specialist at the Wissahickon Environmental Center With Judith Gratz, longtime environmental educator and friend of Sioux’s Sioux Baldwin, the first teacher-naturalist and founder of programming...
Jan24th
Thursday Tots: Winter Birds
Meet at the Wissahickon Environmental Center. Tots will explore the lives of birds in the winter and make them a mid-winter snack. Ages 3-5 | Parents stay with their child. $5.00 per child per lesson to be…
Jan25th
Hiking with Maura the Explorer
Meet at the Wigard Avenue Trailhead Enjoy a meander along the Yellow Trail, see the first Sustainable Trails Initative (STI) Demo project. Continue on a short stroll along Forbidden Drive and visit the historic Valley…
Jan26th
Winter Birds II with Martin Selzer (Andorra)
Meet at the Wissahickon Environmental Center. Meet local birder Martin Selzer at the Tree House at 8:30am, the walk will last about 2 hours to observe wintering birds along Forbidden Drive and in Andorra and Harper’s…