Things to do in & around Cobbs Creek Park (Activities/Education/Events)

• Cobbs Creek Community Environmental Center – Cobbs Creek Community Environmental Center has offered environmental education programs at its urban center in Southwest Philadelphia for more than two decades. It offers hands-on activities, research & teacher training to strengthen in-school environmental education. This center features meadows, forest area, two creeks and a wetland. 
• Cobbs Creek Recreation Center – Located at Spruce Street and Cobbs Creek Parkway, the Cobbs Creek Recreation Center boasts an athletic field, swimming pool, indoor basketball court, multipurpose room, classroom, boxing gym and lounge.
• Laura Sims Skate House – https://laurasimsskatehouse.org
• We Walk PHL – We Walk PHL is a free walking group that meets several times per week at various public parks. We Walk PHL seeks to promote positive health outcomes, increase use of Philadelphia’s park system, and create opportunities for people to pursue fitness goals while meeting their neighbors. Explore the website to find meeting times and locations for the Cobbs Creek Park group.
• Cobbs Creek Library – The Blanche A. Nixon/Cobbs Creek Library, part of the Free Library of Philadelphia network of libraries, is located in the heart of Southwest Philadelphia.

Learn more about Cobbs Creek Park and Trail (History/Nature/Park)

• The Circuit Trails – Greater Philadelphia is the proud home of the Circuit Trails, a vast regional network of hundreds of miles of multi-use trails that is growing in size each year. The Circuit connects our local communities, providing endless opportunities for recreating and commuting.
• East Coast Greenway – The southern section of Cobbs Creek Trail is part of the larger East Coast Greenway. The East Coast Greenway connects 15 states and 450 cities and towns for 3,000 miles from Maine to Florida. They are fostering a safe walking and biking route through the country’s most populated corridor.
• Whitby Meadows Natural Resources Inventory – During the summer of 2020, Audubon Pennsylvania engaged LandHealth Institute to conduct a natural resources inventory for the area of Cobbs Creek Park proximate to the intersection of Cobbs Creek Parkway and Whitby Avenue, to inform ecological restoration as well as community-driven outdoor recreation activities.
• Audubon Mid-Atlantic – Audubon Mid-Atlantic’s on-the-ground efforts in Pennsylvania catalyze a large-scale conservation vision which is important for bird species traveling along the Atlantic Flyway. Audubon’s work includes local conservation education and engagement initiatives and restoring critical bird habitats.

Beyond the Park

• Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia – For 50 years, the Bicycle Coalition and its members have been making it better to ride a bike in Philadelphia and eight counties in PA and NJ. Join them for 50 more years of improving the health, wellness and sustainability of their communities. The Coalition’s Regional Bike Map lays out more than 400 miles of bike lanes and 300 miles of Circuit Trails.
• John Heinz Wildlife Refuge – John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum is part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Wildlife Refuge System, a network of lands set aside for the benefit of native wildlife and plants. Established in 1972 through local activism, the refuge protects habitat for the benefit of both people and wildlife. Visitors to the refuge may observe hundreds of species of plants, trees, birds, insects and mammals.
• Bartram’s Garden – Bartram’s Garden is a home for horticulture, the first nationally landmarked landscape, and the oldest surviving botanic garden in North America. It is Sankofa Community Farm, an ancient riverfront, a conversation on food sovereignty, high school internship programs, and a place of untold histories. At its core, it is a public park spanning nearly 50 acres in the Kingsessing neighborhood of Southwest Philadelphia, offering peace, rest, and connection.
• LandHealth Institute – LandHealth Institute is a nonprofit based in West Philadelphia with a mission to restore connections between nature and people by focusing on exploration, immersive at-the-source environmental education, and community-based land revitalization.