Nature Center

The Black Rock Retreat Nature Center is home to over a dozen live animals, as well as a number of preserved specimens. This hands-on program offers a chance to meet them up close!

Learn about several of our Nature Center’s residents and how God has designed them with unique features to survive in a particular habitat. This program is an auditorium-style presentation that allows participants to touch the animals.

  • Ages: All Ages
  • Cost: $150 per hour.
    • Discount – Overnight guests pay only $125 per hour when booking more than 30 days in advance!
    • For groups under 25 guests, please contact for pricing.

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While groups come for many different reasons, we know you have specific goals in mind. At Black Rock Retreat, our goal is to help guide you as you look for ways to achieve those goals on your day-long or overnight retreat. All activities are group-focused and can include your group’s goals and theme. To help with the planning, we also offer programmed retreat activities. Here’s a list of our recreation facilities and other retreat facilities.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What's the "Pet Policy" for handling animals?

This program is an auditorium-style presentation that allows participants to touch the animals.

There are over a dozen live animals at the Black Rock Retreat Nature Center. A chance to meet them up close and personal will be offered by this program. It is important to be calm and respect the natural beauty of the animal that you’re getting to know. After all you’re in their living space. To keep them from being stressed, please use inside voices while in the nature center, and walking during your visit would go a long way to make sure these critters stay healthy.

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Where is the Nature Center Located?

The Nature Center at Black Rock Retreat is located at 1345 Kirkwood Pike, Quarryville, PA, 17566 on PA State Route 472, approx. 4.5 miles south of the town of Quarryville, PA and approx. 8.5 miles north of the town of Oxford, PA.

We have a private entrance off Route 472 that is marked with a fairly large sign, which is lighted up in the evening.

For GPS use, you can use our street address or the geo-coordinates:
39.867327, -76.105963
(which is the same as 39°52’02.4″N 76°06’21.5″W)

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How much does the Nature Center program cost?
  • Ages: All Ages
  • Cost: $100 per hour.
    • Discount – Overnight guests pay only $80 per hour when booking more than 30 days in advance!

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