plan your special event
Your special event deserves a special location.
Your special event deserves a special location.
Natural Lands’ Lenfest Center at ChesLen Preserve offers a beautiful setting for your special event. An outdoor pavilion, natural gardens, and an expansive lawn provide a beautiful, customizable outdoor space to entertain up to 150 guests for corporate or personal events. Enjoy outstanding food and exceptional service, with expert event planners to handle all the details necessary to make your vision a reality.
Please note: We are unable to host weddings or wedding receptions.
For more information on booking your event or to schedule a tour, please send a message to our exclusive catering partner, 12th Street Catering, or call 215-386-8595 x 23.
Your special event at Natural Lands supports our mission to save open space, care for nature, and connect people to the outdoors.
The organizer of each special event will receive a complimentary one-year membership to Natural Lands for themselves or their business. This includes a subscription to our semi-annual magazine, discounted tickets for Natural Lands’ events, and other benefits of membership.
our exclusive catering partner.
One of the premier full-service catering companies in the region, 12th Street Catering brings more than 30 years of industry experience, innovative and delicious menus, and the highest level of service to events large and small. 12th Street Catering’s hospitality professionals take great pride in crafting inspired dishes for events ranging from intimate gatherings and corporate events to large-scale picturesque galas. Their menus are carefully personalized and curated to satisfy preferences and requests while delivering an amazing culinary experience.
12th Street Catering is one of the only “green” catering companies in the Philadelphia region. They are committed to providing and incorporating fresh, seasonal, and local ingredients into every dish. 12th Street’s headquarters has six raised rooftop beds and three plots of land in front of the building to grow produce for their menus.
For more information on booking your event or to schedule a tour, please send a message to 12th Street Catering, or call 215-386-8595 x 23.
want to explore with a group?
Our properties are pretty spectacular (if we do say so ourselves!), so it’s no wonder we receive frequent and varied requests to use them. We welcome group hikes as long as all participants follow visitor guidelines. Please check Facebook (each property has its own Facebook page) for the most up-to-date information on closings and special events.
Please note that Natural Lands does not permit fee-based activities or weddings at any of our properties, and that professional photographers wishing to use a preserve or Stoneleigh as backdrop for a photo shoot must first join our Featured Photography Program.