# Ecozone Discovery Room Open Afternoons — Pocono Environmental Education Center

> Event for families in the New York–Newark–Jersey City area (NY / NJ). Times are Eastern Time.

- When: Sat, Nov 7 (+1 more date) · 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
- Where: Pocono Environmental Education Center, 538 Emery Road, Dingmans Ferry, PA 18328
- Ages: Not stated (kids & family exhibit room)
- Price: $3 per person
- Organizer: Pocono Environmental Education Center (PEEC)
- Official page: https://www.peec.org/
- Last checked: Sat, Oct 24

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## About

The Pocono Environmental Education Center (PEEC), inside the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area at Dingmans Ferry in Pike County, opens its hands-on Ecozone Discovery Room to drop-in families on select weekend afternoons. Inside the exhibit room children can climb into a life-size bald eagle's nest, crawl through a beaver lodge and a bat cave, and explore other habitat displays that show how the animals of the Poconos live through the seasons. No registration is needed and entry is a few dollars a person, which makes it an easy add-on to a late-fall or early-winter walk on PEEC's trails. The room is open from 1:30 to 3:30 pm on a Saturday in November and a Sunday in December; check PEEC's events calendar before driving out, as the center lists its open dates one by one.

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