Trexler Nature Preserve
The Trexler Nature Preserve is an 1,108-acre county park owned and maintained by Lehigh County in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. The preserve is situated in Lowhill Township and North Whitehall Township near the community of Schnecksville.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Opening hours: sunrise—sunset
- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: park in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania (est. 2006)
- Also known as: “Bison of Trexler Nature Preserve” and “Trexler Game Preserve”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lehigh Valley Zoo and Geiger Covered Bridge.
Lehigh Valley Zoo
Zoo
Photo: Hshuvaeva, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lehigh Valley Zoo is a 29-acre zoo located in Schnecksville in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. It is located inside the 1,100-acre Trexler Nature Preserve.
Geiger Covered Bridge
Geiger Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge located at North Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is a 112-foot-long, Burr Truss bridge, constructed in 1860.
Schlicher Covered Bridge
Photo: Lehigh Valley, PA, CC BY 2.0.
Schlicher Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge located at North Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is a 108-foot-long, Burr Truss bridge, constructed in 1882.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Orefield and Newside.
Orefield
Hamlet
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Orefield is a small unincorporated community in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The community is split between North Whitehall and South Whitehall townships.
Newside
Hamlet
Newside is a small hamlet in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, located four miles west of the town of Neffs, at the corner of Park Avenue and Newside Road. It is part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area.
Balliettsville
Hamlet
Balliettsville is an unincorporated community in North Whitehall Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Lehigh Valley, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.
Trexler Nature Preserve
- Categories: county park and recreation area
- Location: Lehigh, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.6517° or 40° 39′ 6″ northLongitude
-75.62628° or 75° 37′ 35″ westElevation
705 feet (215 metres)Open location code
87G6M92F+MFOpenStreetMap ID
way 1231447544OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserve
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In Other Languages
“Trexler Nature Preserve” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Trexler Nature Preserve”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Trexler Nature Preserve”. Photo: Nicholas A. Tonelli, CC BY 2.0.