Located in nearby Chestnut Hill, the arboretum is a magnificent outdoor sanctuary of trees, shrubs, and flowers. The English landscape is particularly famous for its unusual trees of Japanese and Chinese origin. Tinicum National Environmental Center 86th Street and Lindbergh Blvd. The 200-acre preserve is situated along Darby Creek and is a natural habitat for marsh plants and waterfowl. Walk or bike along Tinicum's nature trail and watch out for heron, gallinules, or muskrats.
Admission is free.
34th Street and Girard Avenue, off of the Schuylkill Expressway east from campus. An all-weather attraction, every effort has been made to keep the animals in their natural settings. Within the fifty-two acres of the zoo are 1,600 mammals, birds, reptiles, and rare species from all over the world. On the African Plains, animals such as ostriches and zebras wander. Birds of the tropics fly through the Hummingbird House, and the Reptile House offers a unique experience of an electrical thunder storm.