Check out these hiking trails near Scranton, PA, and explore what's possible. Woodlands Campus Maps and Guides are also available at Lackawanna Hall, Monday-Friday from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Woodlands Campus
Streams, meadows and winding woodland trails aren’t just window dressing, they’re here for you to play in and learn in!
Keystone’s Woodlands nature area includes a large network of hiking trails leading to the College’s Sugar Shack, suspension bridge, vernal pool, biology pond, and more.
The Woodlands Campus is an extremely valuable educational resource for Keystone students, proving a perfect area for a variety of scientific and environmental studies. Few colleges in the nation offer students such a pristine natural environment for education and recreation.
Campus Acres
Woodland Acres
Miles of Hiking Trails
Woodland Campus
Program Highlights
Keystone College’s 170-acre Woodlands Campus features a stream, seven miles of hiking trails, and meadows and is home to a nature preserve and maple sugaring operation. The outdoor classrooms and field stations provide unparalleled opportunities for outdoor discovery and a wonderful learning atmosphere for our environmental education courses and workshops.
In the News
Sugary Keystone tradition starts up
A yearly, sugary tradition is starting up again at Keystone College. The Keystone Sugar Shack is up and running for 2021. The Sugar Shack is a program run by Keystone that gives students experience with making authentic maple syrup from scratch using the hundreds of...
Keystone College students begin maple sugaring operation
Keystone College students gain hands-on experience through the Sugar Shack, a maple sugaring operation. Learn more in this FOX 56 story. Read more
KCEEI
Keystone College Environmental Education Institute offers a variety of hands-on workshops, outdoor educational experiences, presentations, and week-long courses for formal and non-formal educators, students, naturalists, life-long learners and community members.
Howard Jennings Nature Preserve
The College dedicated a portion of its beautiful 170 acre Woodlands Campus as a nature preserve, that will not be developed in any way, to honor the years of dedication of Professor Howard Jennings.
Maple Sugaring
Keystone College is very fortunate to have its own small maple sugaring operation that includes a sugar shack with a hobby-sized evaporator, and of course a sugarbush, where we have approximately 275 taps deployed.
Credits and Environmental Partners
Environmental Partners
- Countryside Conservancy
- Keystone College
- Lackawanna Heritage Valley Authority
- Northeast Intermediate Unit 19
- Overlook Foundation
- USDA Forest Service
- The Willary Foundation
Conservation Districts
- Bradford County Conservation District
- Lackawanna County
- Susquehanna County
- Wyoming County
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
- Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of Forestry
- Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of Parks
- Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, State Parks
- DEP (Department of Environmental Protection)
- PA Fish and Boat Commission
- USDA NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation Service)
Maps, guides, and signage for Keystone’s Woodlands Campus sponsored in part by the Lackawanna Heritage Valley Authority in partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the National Park Service.