Please let us know if you’ll be joining us for a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony of the New SLNC Picnic Pavilion.

Scroll down to register. Thanks!

If you’d like to make a donation to help with costs incurred for the New SLNC Picnic Pavilion, please visit: https://silverlakenaturecenter.org/donate/ and include in the comments that this is for the Pavilion. Thank you so much!

A message from PattiAnn Cutter, SLNC Director-Naturalist:

The New SLNC Picnic Pavilion (located behind the SLNC Visitors’ Center) is NOW officially complete AND we will have a ribbon-cutting for it on Friday, July 25^th, at 10am! Hope you can stop by for our brief ceremony!

Here’s the link to sign up: https://silverlakenaturecenter.org/event/new-slnc-picnic-pavilion-ribbon-cutting-7-25-25/

And ~ if you’d like to make a donation to help offset additional costs* that the nonprofit Friends of SLNC organization incurred through the construction process, please visit: https://silverlakenaturecenter.org/donate/, and include in the comments that this is for the New Pavilion.

We extend a HUGE thanks to:

• the Friends of SLNC and ALL who donated to help make this project possible – including through Annual Appeals, Basket Fundraisers, SLNC Night at Local Restaurants, Individual Donations, and More! Thank you also to ALL who helped to coordinate the fundraisers! Without ALL of this support from our Members, Volunteers, Staff, and Community, this would not have been able to happen!
• Visit Bucks County for their generous grant of $11,700 to help toward this Project!
• DiCenso Landscaping, Inc. the amazing Contractor who took on this job and stuck with us through the many hurdles along the way! They did an incredible job!!!

The driving force/need for this Project was for our Summer Camp as it has grown exponentially over the past few years, and we needed a second Pavilion to help accommodate. For the past few years, the County of Bucks provided us with a Festival Tent to use through the Camp Season, and we are grateful. But we really needed to get a permanent structure, and we did! The Summer Campers are LOVING it, and it is also available to the public when not in use by the Summer Camp! It will also soon be available to rent (and proceeds from rentals will also help defer the cost).

*The total cost of the Project (including engineering fees, permits, construction, et al) was $39,224.79. The total fundraised through all the above efforts was $34, 725. If you’d like to help contribute toward the $4,499.79 difference, please visit https://silverlakenaturecenter.org/donate/ and indicate in the comments that it’s for the Pavilion Project. Thank you!!