Bushy Run Battlefield

"Fun with the Family"

Here’s an opportunity to acquaint your family with a lesser-known conflict: Pontiac’s War. In 1763 Native American forces, under the command of war chief Pontiac, struggled against the British, eventually laying siege to Fort Pitt. At the Bushy Run Battlefield, the British turned the tide against this rebellion and saved Fort Pitt.
At the visitor center a fiber-optic map helps you get your bearings. Take sometime to observe the interactive exhibits, maps, flags, and weapons and learn about this episode in our history. In the Kids’ Corner you can try on a reproduction uniform. Then you can take a guided tour of the battlefield.
There are 3 miles of historic hiking trails, education programs, and special events. On the Edge Hill Trail, each stop represents one aspect of the Battle of Bushy Run, including the Flour Bag Entrenchment in which flour bags were used to protect the British wounded. There is also a gift shop. Wheelchair accessible.
Another trail, the Flour Sack Discovery Trail, focuses on how humans have used things from the forest. For example, the black walnut tree provided food, dye, insect repellent, gunstocks,and furniture.
The Iroquois Nature Trail was designed by the Boy Scouts to demonstrate the changes in the environment between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. There are thirteen stations, such as Beauty in Nature Through Adapttion, where you can see how nature has healed itself in what was once a stone quarry.