Big Run, a tributary of Slippery Rock Creek, flows through Jennings Environmental Education Center, and it shares a border with Moraine State Park to the south.

Jennings stays busy offering hands on opportunities to students and teachers with a "discovery and problem solving" approach.

Jennings Environmental Education Center was the first state park established to protect an endangered plant, the blazing star.

These paleo-Indians followed the receding glaciers at the end of the ice age in pursuit of woolly mammoths and giant ground sloths.

[3] European pioneers from the Thirteen Colonies and New France passed through the area and used the Venango Path an Indian trail, portions of which have since been paved over by Pennsylvania Route 528.

Jennings ensured that the area would be protected for the enjoyment and future education of many generations of Pennsylvanians.

[3] Directly across Route 8 from the park is the Old Stone House which is owned and operated by Slippery Rock University.

George Washington and Christopher Gist also traveled through the vicinity in 1753 while on their historic mission to Fort LeBoeuf prior to the French and Indian War.