Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve

At his high school reunion, Arnold Palmer once told a classmate, "Your hometown is not where you're from. It's who you are." There's no person whom that statement better personifies than Arnold's late wife, Winnie Palmer.

Winnie loved the Latrobe area and didn't want it to become over-commercialized. She worked hard to save a particular 26-acre tract of land from development, and hoped to make it an environmental, educational and recreational area. Shortly after Winnie's passing, then Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge announced that land would be preserved, thanks to a $500,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation.

Today the Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve Trust's mission is to permanently improve and maintain that property.

For more information:
Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve
Environmental Education Center
Saint Vincent College
c/o Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve
744 Walzer Way
Latrobe, PA 15650
Phone: 724-537-5284
Fax: 724-537-5286

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