Want something to do for a couple hours on a weekend or weeknight? Now that the weather is comfortable, you should think about visiting the Wintergreen Gorge in Erie, PA. The Gorge is located on the Penn State Behrend Campus. You park behind their housing complexes off of the Bayfront Connector and hike away.
While on the hike you can venture down to the waterfall (pictured). Take a camel pack and make a lunch trip out of it! Make sure you wear some sort of water shoe/sandal so you can cross and play in the water flowing through the gorge.
Wintergreen gorge is a beautiful place to go that will take you no longer than 15-20 minutes from wherever you are in Erie. It’s nice to get out of the city life for a few minutes and enjoy some scenery.
The hike around the area is not very difficult but remember when you walk down, you will have to walk back up. This is a great hike for families, singles, couples and friends!
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is there any other way to access trails in the gorge???
There are a couple different ways to get to the Gorge. The ones I know are all around PSB.
One option is to start at the bottom of cooper rd cross 4mi creek- location by intersection of cooper and shannon.
You can enter by the engineering complex on campus.
I personally like parking behind the dorms located off of Jordan Road- take bayfront connector, Right onto Jordan, Right behind dormitories- park in lot located all the way in back.
Hope this helps... anyone else know other places?
Anyone else know other locations??
the environmental club im in was thinking bout cleaning up the gorge. is it a public park? or do we need permission by penn state behrend to do so?
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