Grey Towers - Conservation Legacy
Located in Milford, PA, Grey Towers is a stunning historic site that has been restored to it's original glory, is open to the public and played an important part of Pennsylvania and American history as well as the epicenter of the Modern Conservation Movement.
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Grey Towers National Historic Site
This renowned landmark in Milford, PA once the ancestral home of the Pinchot family is widely regarded as the birthplace of the US Forest Service and of the Conservation movement.
A National treasure, owned and operated by the US Forest Service, Grey Towers is open to the public and is highly recommended.
Grey Towers is educational in many respects. First, as the ancestral summer home of the wealthy Pinchot Family, it provides a rare insight into the lifestyle of turn of the century NY aristocracy.
Grey Towers National Historic Site
It became the epicenter for the establishment of the US Forest Service and the Modern Conservation Movement.
A young Gifford Pinchot, heir to the Pinchot Fortune, took his love of the surrounding forests and established a Department of Forestry at Yale University. This started an intellectual and scientific movement that gained the support of President Teddy Roosevelt, which in turn led to the creation of the US Forest Service.
Open daily, with nominal entrance fee, Grey Towers is an impressive architectural structure, surrounded by one of a kind grounds, a stunning waterfall, and more history and artifacts that can be taken in an appreciated in one visit.
One of the top places to visit in the Poconos.
Grey Towers National Historic Site
151 Grey Towers Drive P.O. Box 188
Milford, Pennsylvania 18337
(570) 296-9630