All activities listed below are intended for children and youth to use in the park.The programs vary in difficulty from a one-day of fun activities to some serious searching for answers, but all the programs are linked to visiting the park and seeing and experiencing the park first-hand.
• Kids can become Junior Naturalists and earn a patch and pencil by watching nature in the park and completing a 4-page activities sheet, which can be downloaded in advance of your visit. Junior Naturalist is usually the first step to being a Junior Park Ranger.
• Kids can move up to being a Junior Park Ranger and earn an iron-on cloth patch and an Junior Park Ranger badge.
• The Adventure Guide for Teens is a 16-page color booklet that introduces youth to the Appalachian Trail (AT) within this park and enables them to become AT Junior Rangers.
Did You Know? ... that the Middle Delaware River exceeds ordinary federal standards for clean water. Because of this, special higher standards have been set for the river, so it does not "deteriorate" to being just "clean enough." The river in this park is, and will remain, truly "cleaner than clean." more...