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Friends of Stroud Region
Friends of Stroud Region help to provide recreational opportunities and preserve and protect open space in the Stroud Region.
The Greenway’s corridor of open space not only protects the watershed and shelters its wildlife, but forms the backbone of the Region’s recreational assets. Twenty-four regional parks offer year-round opportunities for active and passive leisure pursuits, with a series of trail systems connecting urban, suburban, rural, and wild places.
Yet population and development pressures, economic constraints, habitat loss, and environmental hazards daily threaten the cherished natural character of the Region.
Friends help to enhance the greenway system by supporting the acquisition of key parcels of remaining open space.
By their tangible support, Personal and Corporate Members help protect the Region’s natural, cultural and scenic resources, provide recreational benefits, and enhance the quality of life in our own neighborhoods and communities.
Friends directly support the recreational, educational, environmental, and cultural programs offered to all who live and work in the Stroud Region.
Categories
Eight levels of Annual Membership offer both personal and
corporate stewardship roles in helping to meet the recreational needs and
open space objectives where we live,
Benefits Discounts on Stroud Region recreational, educational, environmental, and cultural programming. Discounts on rental of Day Street Community Center facilities. Friends of Stroud Region Membership Card (Personal Providers). Friends of Stroud Region Framed Certificate (Corporate Caretakers). Public recognition in the quarterly publication Connections. Satisfaction in helping to improve regional quality of life issues.
Application Won't you consider joining the Friends of Stroud Region? Click here for a paper application, or here to join via the online system. Looking for more ways to help? Click here for Gift Opportunities. Thank you for your support!
Introducing a new Friends Fundraising Event! We are pleased to associate with the newly-formed Delaware River Food and Wine Festival in offering:
Bounty of the Brodhead On the lawn, in the park: charcoal-baked, cedar-planked trout. Discover wild fruits, nuts, juices & sweets—from Nature to You!
Sunday, September 21 3:00 & 5:00 pm Brodhead Creek Park, Route 191, Stroudsburg $45 Adults; $30 children 12 & under tickets: www.delawareriverfoodandwine.com/events.html
Nestled along one of the Delaware’s most picturesque tributaries, the Brodhead Creek Greenway is a verdant paradise for everything natural and pure. The mature woodlands, rhododendron thickets, and grassy meadows support a rich diversity of foraging birds and animals; the wild mountain stream sustains a high quality cold fishery of thriving brook, brown, and rainbow trout populations.
Join a professional interpretive naturalist in a guided walk to discover some of the natural foods available to our pioneering ancestors—as well as the abundant wildlife of today. In a demonstration catch of the bountifully flowing creek, see what turns up in a 20-foot seine net. Taste the vitamin-rich drink of the staghorn sumac made by the Lenape Indians of long ago; crack open the precious nutmeats of the native hickory, beech, and walnut trees; help create tasty homemade ice cream; add fresh local apples to an old-fashioned ciderpress—and hand-picked grapes to a winepress! Then hand-turn the grinders, press the pulp, and taste the literal fruits of your labors: delicious apple cider and grape juice fresh from Nature to you!
The Bounty of the Brodhead’s delectable menu of our local wild and fresh edibles offers charcoal-baked cedar-planked trout; baked potato; pumpkin squash bake; mixed greens and spinach salad; corn bread; and caramel apple sundae in a sugar cookie cup. Enjoy tasty food, wines and drinks, hands-on demonstrations, and engaging music from strolling minstrels, all in a picturesque outdoor ambiance—a truly refreshing day in the bountiful outdoors!
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Enriching
lives through quality open space, parks, and recreation.
Encompassing
nearly 38 square miles of exceptional natural beauty and resources of
eastern Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains, the Stroud Region surrounds the
confluence of the pristine Brodhead, McMichael, and Pocono Creeks and its
associated Greenway system.
work, and play.