Visit Hawk Mountain

Open year-round

Visit Hawk Mountain Sanctuary

Hawk Mountain Sanctuary's beautiful mountains are home to some of the largest birds in the world. Join us in learning about each role these predators have throughout the world and stay up-to-date on our conservation and education efforts.

Yes, we are OPEN!

As long as Berks County stays in the yellow or green phase, our trails are OPEN. Our Visitor Center will remain closed until further notice. Please visit the link below for details on admission and current procedures.

Click Here

Visitors hawk watching from South Lookout in the fall.

Experience Nature Year Round

There's plenty to do, see, and learn at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary! And your visit supports science, training, and education programs on the Mountain and across the globe.

Rates & Hours

Buy Event Tickets

Visitor FAQs

Plan your visit to Hawk Mountain

Upcoming Events

Learn about birds of prey, migration, nature on the Mountain, and more with our year-long schedule of workshops, lectures, talks, and walks, as well as regularly-scheduled weekend programs during spring and autumn. We hope to see you on the Mountain!

View All Events

8+Miles of Trails
155Avian Species to See
200+Events

Something For Everyone

News from the Mountain

Science

Spring 2020 Migration Count Overview

A brief overview of the Spring 2020 Migration Count.

General

Spotted Lanternflies Have Returned

As you safely prepare for some of your favorite summertime activities, be sure to keep an eye out for this invasive insect.

Visitors

Welcoming Visitors as Trails Reopened on June 5

Hawk Mountain Sanctuary has reopened trails with new safety protocols in place. The Visitor Center remains closed at this time.

Giving

Support Hawk Mountain during the 2020 Virtual Benefit for the Birds

Hawk Mountain's annual fundraiser, the Benefit for the Birds Gala has been transformed into a month-long, online-only silent auction with a live-streamed event.

Giving

Giving Tuesday NOW is Today, May 5

#GivingTuesdayNow is a new global day of generosity and unity, a day to come together and give back in response to the unprecedented need caused by COVID-19. Your support can help us to protect the...

Science

A Network of Songbird Surveys

As we approach the time of year that songbirds have returned to nest at their favorite breeding grounds, David Barber looks back on Hawk Mountain’s data from last year’s breeding bird count field r...

General

When Duty Calls

An update from the President regarding Hawk Mountain's continued closure. All trails and facilities remain closed until further guidance from the state and local government.

Special Projects

Help the Climate and the Mountain

Through a company called Cool Effect, individuals can retire carbon credits and support forest conservation on the Mountain.

Science

Climbing to Vulture Conservation in Armenia

Former Conservation Science Trainee Karen Aghababyan has been involved in kickstarting several influential programs in Armenia dedicated to conservation research and education.

General

An Update for our Supporters

General

Hawk Mountain CLOSED until Further Notice

General

An Update Regarding COVID-19

Education

Hawk Mountain Names New Director of Education

Hawk Mountain has selected Jamie Dawson as the new Director of Education.

Science

Studying Kestrels Year-round

For nearly 30 years now, Hawk Mountain researchers and volunteers have been studying kestrels around Cape Coral, Florida, an important wintering ground for the American kestrel.

Science

New Paper Published: Widespread Harrier Population Cycle Discovered

Scientists from four hawk-watch sites, including our very own Director of Conservation Science Dr. Laurie Goodrich, have recently published an article titled "Northern Harriers Have a Geographicall...

Visitors

Hawk Mountain Announces 2020 Discovery Institute Series

Hawk Mountain has launched a new Discovery Institute Series—a set of events designed for adults and interested learners who are looking for an immersive educational experience.

Education

How One Owl Could Change the Way a New Generation Views Raptors

The addition of a live, feathered ambassador in educational programs helps make our message vivid for all ages, but especially young students. Hawk Mountain has worked to expand our reach to local ...

Science

Hawk Mountain is Speaking Up for the American Kestrel

In response to previous observations and thanks to a generous jump-start grant from a family foundation, Hawk Mountain is launching new regional research to pinpoint the cause for kestrel populatio...

Visitors

Hawk Mountain announces 2020 Winter Artisan Series

This is the Sanctuary’s first year hosting a winter artisan workshop series, and it is proudly presented in collaboration with The Arts Barn.

Science

Changing Chickadees

Dr. Robert Curry, a professor of biology at Villanova University, is studying black-capped, Carolina, and hybrid chickadees while completing a research semester that has included time at Hawk Mount...

Science

Autumn 2019 Leadership Trainee: Circumpolar Ecology with Olga Kulikova

Kolguyev Island is a Russian Island located in the south-eastern Barents Sea. It is also an arctic field station, where Olga conducted research on arctic species for five years and regularly filled...

General

Autumn 2019 Trainee Projects

Before we said goodbye to our fall 2019 conservation science and education trainee class, they presented their individual projects that they worked on this season Each trainee shared a background, ...

Science

An improved definition for raptors, and a new species joins the flock!

Hawk Mountain scientist Jean-Francois Therrien has collaborated with The Peregrine fund on a recently published peer reviewed paper titled “Commentary: Defining Raptors and Birds of Prey”. The pape...

Science

Six-legged Sky Jewels

Dragonflies' migratory patterns have stumped researchers for decades, yet in the age of efficient tracking technology and citizen science, answers are on the horizon. At Hawk Mountain we contribute...

Special Projects

New Outdoor Amphitheater Nearing Completion

After years of careful planning and budgeting, the new Hawk Mountain amphitheater has finally broken ground as of this August, and the bones of this beast are beginning to take shape.

Giving

PPL awards $25,000 grant for Head Start with Hawk Mountain

Thanks to a major grant from the PPL Foundation, Hawk Mountain is sharing outdoor education programming with children of Schuylkill County’s Head Start and PA PreK Counts classrooms.

Science

Living on the Edge

Former trainee and current PhD student Rebecca McCabe is collaborating with Dr. Laurie Goodrich and colleagues at East Stroudsburg University to study the nesting ecology of broad-winged hawks in t...

Visitors

Kutztown University’s Dr. Todd Underwood Shares Research on Brood Parasitism

With research on brood parasitism spanning more than two decades, Dr. Todd Underwood shares what he has learned about the behavior, and what he will continue to study as he takes a sabbatical at Ha...

Giving

Disney Conservation Fund awards grant to Hawk Mountain for vulture conservation project

Hawk Mountain has been awarded a grant by the Disney Conservation Fund for the work to protect two species of critically endangered vultures, the white-backed and hooded, in South Africa through th...

Giving

M&T Charitable Foundation sponsors Raptors Up Close at Hawk Mountain

M&T Bank recently awarded Hawk Mountain Sanctuary a $5,000 grant from the M&T Charitable Foundation to support the world-famous Sanctuary and its premier weekend program, Raptors Up Close!.

View All News