Member Opening Celebration 
Saturday, July 8, 4 - 6pm  (RESCHEDULED)
The Pavilion Project &  Ecstatic Light
Join us July 8, 4-6pm to celebrate Manitoga's tour season featuring The Pavilion Project and Ecstatic Light. 

The Pavilion, designed and built by graduate students of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, will be on view at the base of the majestic Waterfall this season.  Ecstatic Light,  illuminated paintings by artist Peter Bynum, continues throughout the House & Studio with new works in the West Gallery.



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Details, Psychedelic and Big Violet (Songlines)  by Peter Bynum

MANITOGA Rolls Out the Red Carpet
A New South Entrance Drive
We are thrilled to announce that Manitoga's Access Road Restoration Project is almost complete.

Thanks to a $200,000 grant from New York State Office, Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation - Environmental Protection Fund and generous matching gifts, the public South Entrance Drive has been reconfigured and re-graded. A new turn-around will allow access by multi-passenger vehicles, the parking area will be enhanced, and the entrance restored with wildflowers and native plantings. 

The finished results are coming soon and will be graceful and dramatic!

Summer Nature & Design Camp
Still a few slots left!
A large-scale pavilion designed by University of Pennsylvania Architecture students is here just in time for camp! Inspired by Russel Wright's modern designs, the Pavilion will introduce campers, through fun hands-on projects, to architecture, design, and engineering - in a magical setting. We are thrilled to offer our campers this unique experience. Space is limited.  Register your child today.

Behind the Scenes
Meet Landscape Manager Emily Phillips: Passion, Patience, Perseverance
On any given day, there goes Emily weeding the green roofs, pruning the mountain laurel, and surveying the trails. She cares for Manitoga's 75 acre woodland garden with a  small team of contractors, interns, and volunteers.

This Spring has been busy as the  Jolly Rovers Trail Crew  continues to restore stone features along the trails, the South Entrance Drive is restored, and a new and enlarged trailhead kiosk is underway. On Saturdays this season, hikers will meet Site Educator and Landscape Assistant Kate Brittenham, trained by Emily to share more about Russel Wright's design with nature. 

SAVE THE DATE  - Lend Emily a hand! Join us for Volunteer Landscape Workday on September 23, 9am-2pm .