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Exploring Philly’s City Parks
Coyote Tracks and Young Coyote Tracks youth programs provide a time and place for children to explore nature in a hands-on way. We use storytelling and outdoor adventure to guide participants through their introduction and exploration of Earth skills—a blend of the ancient arts of tracking, wilderness survival, and nature awareness.
These fun and interactive programs aim to nurture each participant’s true sense of belonging here on the Earth.
Each group session is a unique experience, but each seasonal series includes timeless wanders and ancient awareness games. Older children will practice making and working with various tools, as well as fire building. All ages will enjoy hands on activities, games, adventures and so much more!
About the Wissahickon…
The Wissahickon Valley Park is managed by Philadelphia Parks and Recreation, and is additionally uplifted by many local ‘Friends’ groups organizations; including the Friends of the Wissahickon, the Wissahickon Restoration Volunteers, and others. This 2,024-acre of protected urban wilderness holds over 50 miles of trails that wind through a wooded gorge formed by the Wissahickon Creek, which provides drinking water to one in three Philadelphians. Learn more..
Current Programs
Youth Programs:
Winter Sessions
Starts January 21st through February 27th
Coyote Tracks Afterschool Program | Tuesdays | 4pm - 6pm | Ages 8-12
Coyote Tracks Homeschool Program | Wednesdays | 10am - 2pm | Ages 8-12
Young Coyote Tracks Program | Thursdays | 10 am | Ages 5-7
Coyote Tracks Afterschool
Starts January 21st
Tuesdays | 4pm - 6pm
Ages 8-12
Wissahickon Environmental Center
Coyote Tracks Homeschool
Starts January 22nd
Wednesdays | 10am - 2pm
Ages 8-12
Blue Bell Park
Young Coyote Tracks
Starts January 23rd
Thursdays | 10am - 1pm
Ages 5-7
Blue Bell Park
Spring Sessions
Starts March 18th through May 13th
(No Program week of 4/14 for Spring Break)
Coyote Tracks Afterschool Program | Tuesdays | 4pm - 6pm | Ages 8-12
Coyote Tracks Homeschool Program | Wednesdays | 10am - 2pm | Ages 8-12
Young Coyote Tracks Program | Thursdays | 10 am | Ages 5-7
Coyote Tracks Afterschool
Starts March 18th
Tuesdays | 4pm - 6pm
Ages 8-12
Wissahickon Environmental Center
Coyote Tracks Homeschool
Starts March 19th
Wednesdays | 10am - 2pm
Ages 8-12
Blue Bell Park
Young Coyote Tracks
Starts March 20th
Thursdays | 10am - 1pm
Ages 5-7
Blue Bell Park
Family & Adult Programs:
Meet the Philly Crew
4 Elements Earth Education brings the arts of wilderness survival to life through outdoor adventure, storytelling, and hands-on development of Earth skills.
Our Instructors have a variety of skills and experience as they guide youth towards nature's teachings. We are constantly "role-modeling" respect with the natural world and with each other.
Program Locations
Wissahickon Environmental Center
A quiet area on a hill called the ‘Tree House’, at the outermost boundary of Philadelphia city limits. Steep, rocky hills and access to forests, meadows and the Wissahickon Creek, this area welcomes our participants to experience the variety of Nature’s expressions in a convenient location. There are so many activities and skills to be learned and experienced here: hiding games in the forest (awareness), admiring milkweed in the meadow (identifying) and meeting the finned ones in the Creek (connecting). We often end our time together gathered in front of a magnificent fire, which shares its gifts of warmth and light with us during the cold and dark times we experience at our afterschool programs in the winter months!
Surrounding neighborhoods include: Chestnut Hill, Mt. Airy, Lafayette Hill, Flourtown, Upper Roxborough/Andorra, and Wyndmoor.
Public Transportation: SEPTA Bus 27-Plymouth Meeting Mall
Blue Bell Park
Blue Bell Park epitomizes Philadelphia’s balance of urban and wild! Just past the dogs running around the open field, this location hosts a treasure trove of wildlife habitats and experiences to be explored. Sitting atop a knoll that drops down to the Monoshone Creek in the east and the Wissahickon Creek in the west, Blue Bell’s offers diverse forests and impressively established understory habitats that rival any other in the state. In these unique features you will experience: deer walking almost within arm reach, racoon families peeking down from holes in the tree, chipmunks scurrying across your feet, and hawks perching powerfully just overhead. This program location offers superior accessibility from many local neighborhoods.
Surrounding neighborhoods include: Germantown, East Falls, Roxborough, Mt. Airy, Chestnut Hill, Tulpohocken, Manayunk.
Public Transportation: SEPTA Bus 65/Germantown-Cheltenham
Historic Rittenhouse Town
Just down the hill from Blue Bell Park lies Historic Rittenhouse Town. This quaint, “town-like” area operated as a manufacturing hub for papermaking in the 17th century. A nonprofit organization that began as the Friends of Historic RittenhouseTown in 1983, is committed to the site’s preservation through research, restoration and high-quality educational programming.
Boasting a Magnolia grove, Wissahickon Creek, Monoshone Creek, Forbidden Drive, and Paper Trail Cafe, there’s lots of accessibility with this centralized area of the park.
Surrounding neighborhoods include: Germantown, Roxborough, Manayunk, Tulpohoken, East Falls, Mt. Airy, Chestnut Hill, and just a skip to Downtown Philly.
Public Transportation: SEPTA Bus 65/Germantown-Chelten
Contact us.
info@4eee.org
(530) 265-2036
Mailing Address:
3824 Lauriston Street
Philadelphia, PA 19128
