Photo by Andreas Pelekis for The Lafayette

Gollub Park is a good spot for birding.

As the weather warms and the Quad buzzes with students, look to the nearby Gollub Park for a peaceful escape from the hustle and bustle of campus life.

“It’s really beautiful and it’s really worth it,” hiker Gabby Politi ‘29 said.

The park is a natural preserve known for its hiking trail and scenic views of the Delaware River. Located on Paxinosa Road East in Forks Township — about an eight-minute drive or an hour walk from campus — it features a 2.4-mile round-trip trail leading to St. Anthony’s Nose, a rocky overlook near the site of the former Paxinosa Inn, which burned down in 1931.

The land was donated to the city of Easton by Dorothy S. Gollub and her husband, George Gollub, in 1984 to make the 25 acres a park. Waterfowl, snakes, frogs and turtles can also be spotted around the site.

Forks Township Director of Parks and Recreation Rachel Sulzbach shared that the area is a noted birding spot and a migratory corridor for raptors, featuring limestone outcrops with unique ferns and wildflowers.

Grace Gazza ‘26, a hiking chair of the Lafayette Outdoors Society, has been to Gollub Park many times with the club, but she also finds time to visit on more personal trips as well.

“My friends and I actually have a little bit of a tradition during finals week, we’ll go there and watch the sunrise,” she said.

Tess Maxwell-Bundy ‘28, who walked to the park from campus, said that the hike was about half an hour total.

“It’s a really great way to just get out in nature if you don’t have a ton of time,” she said.

“I think that you should go to the park, and you should go to the top, to the highest point, to the view of the Delaware,” Politi said.