🎓 Gadzook University · Newtown, PA

Bucks County Community College

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Your tomorrow

🌙 Nightly brief

Tomorrow, every night

One alert each night: tomorrow's classes, what's due, and a heads-up before exams and big papers. No name or account.

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Tonight & this week

The next 7 days: concerts, talks, big games and things to do around campus and town.

Sat, Oct 17

Jersey Beach Boys

Zlock Performing Arts Center

Experience the iconic sounds of The Beach Boys with LIGHTS OUT! Enjoy classic harmonies, high-energy choreography, comedy and audience…

Details → Sat, Oct 17 + 5 more dates

Fall Lantern Tours

Washington Crossing Historic Park – Visitor Center & Historic Village, 1112 River Road, Washington Crossing

Experience the suspense and determination of the night that changed history. This fall, join us for immersive seasonal Lantern Tours of…

Details → Mon, Oct 19

Pizza with the Professors

Rollins Center: Solarium

Business & Legal Studies students have the opportunity to meet and mingle over lunch with Business & Legal Studies faculty and Dean!

Details → Mon, Oct 19 + 7 more dates

Yoga in the Orangery

Orangery

Join us for yoga with Marianne Kepler. Free drop-in session; no registration required.

Details → Tue, Oct 20

Men's Soccer vs. Williamson

Centurion Soccer Field, Bucks Newtown campus

Details → Wed, Oct 21 + 6 more dates

Meditation in the Orangery

Orangery

Join us for a meditation session with Marianne Kepler. Free drop-in session; no registration required.

Details → Wed, Oct 21

Art and Writing Workshop

Library 220 Learning Studio

Details → Thu, Oct 22 + 1 more date

Wordsmith Reading Series

Tyler Hall: Music Room

Details → Thu, Oct 22

“Trowels and Tribulations: The Search for the Newtown Treasury” presented by Matt Bielicki

Half-Moon Inn (Court Inn), 105 Court St, Newtown

The Newtown Treasury refers to the historic 18th-century Bucks County Treasury building located at 35 South State Street in Newtown. It…

Details → Fri, Oct 23 🆓 Free

Monthly Living History: Farmstead Fridays – Preparing for Winter

Washington Crossing Historic Park – Thompson-Neely Farmstead, 1638 River Road, New Hope

October: Preparing for Winter

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📅 All events this weekend and coming up →

🆓 Free this week

Monthly Living History: Farmstead Fridays – Preparing for WinterFri, Oct 23 · Washington Crossing Historic Park – Thompson-Neely Farmstead, 1638 River Road, New Hope

🆓 All free events →

Around campus

🌙 Late-night food

Open late tonight

4 places open past 10:30 PM tonight

Places that list their hours, still open at 10:30 PM. Hours come from OpenStreetMap, so check before you go.

All 4 open late →
Game day

Home games

Next: Tue, Oct 20 · Men's Soccer vs. Williamson

Cheer on the Centurions: soccer at Centurion Soccer Field (downhill past Lot S1), basketball in the Alumni Gymnasium (enter through Linksz Pavilion), baseball at Brian Seibert Memorial Field by Lot S3 and softball by the visitors' lot, all on the Newtown campus.

Full schedule →
Plan ahead

Big weekends

Next: Sat, Oct 24
  • Sat, Oct 24
    Newtown's Halloween Parade (9am), home soccer vs. Christendom (noon) and the Transylvania Thunder Halloween show at the Zlock (7:30pm).
  • Dec 5–6
    Newtown's Holiday House Tour (Sat) and Holiday Parade (Sun, 12:30pm), and A Charlie Brown Christmas at the Zlock (Sun, 3pm).
  • Dec 25–31
    The 250th anniversary of Washington's crossing (reenactment Dec 25, noon–3pm, Washington Crossing Historic Park, about 15 minutes away) and Patriots Week in Trenton (Dec 26–31). Expect big crowds.
  • Thu, May 20
    Commencement (last year: two ceremonies on the Newtown campus, 10am and 2pm). Expect traffic on Swamp Road; book restaurants early.

Family visiting? Hotels and restaurants fill up on these weekends, so book early.

Getting around

Buses, trains & parking

SEPTA bus 130 stops on campus and runs about hourly, Monday to Saturday (no Sunday service). It goes through Newtown borough (State Street), St. Mary Medical Center, Langhorne station, Neshaminy Mall and Philadelphia Mills to Frankford Transportation Center and the El.

Trains: Langhorne station on SEPTA's West Trenton Line is about 15 minutes by car, or on the 130. Center City Philadelphia is about 50 minutes from there.

Parking: free, but you need a parking permit (good at all three Bucks campuses). Apply online, then pick it up at Security & Safety in Cottage IV. An evening shuttle runs between the lots and buildings Mon–Thu, 6–11pm.

Route 130 schedule →
Next door

Tyler State Park

The park borders campus: 1,711 acres along Neshaminy Creek with paved trails for walking, running and biking, open daily 8am to sunset. The Schofield Ford Covered Bridge (1873, rebuilt by volunteers in 1997) is about a quarter mile from the park's Swamp Road parking lot. Like all Pennsylvania state parks, it's free.

Directions to the bridge →
Outdoors today

Outside today

UV 3
UV
3 (Moderate) at 2 PM
Wind
N 15 to 20 mph
Sunrise
7:12 AM
Sunset
6:17 PM

UV: EPA. Wind: National Weather Service. Sunrise & sunset for Newtown.

Know before you go

Tyler State Park is next door

Trails along Neshaminy Creek and the Schofield Ford Covered Bridge (1873, rebuilt by volunteers in 1997). Pennsylvania state parks have no entrance fees.

Wrightstown Farmers Market

Saturdays 9am to noon, May through the Saturday before Thanksgiving, at the Middletown Grange Fairgrounds, 576 Penns Park Road (about 10 minutes' drive from campus).

Closings and campus alerts

Text BUCKS to 79516 for the college's emergency and closing alerts. Closings are also posted on bucks.edu.

Bucks Security & Safety

Cottage IV on the Newtown campus. Call for a safety escort if you're walking alone, or ext. 8911 from any campus phone.

📞 (215) 968-8911

Police (non-emergency)

Bucks County's non-emergency dispatch line for the local police. For emergencies, always call 911.

📞 (215) 949-1000

Nearest hospital (ER)

St. Mary Medical Center, 1201 Langhorne-Newtown Road, Langhorne, about 10 minutes' drive.

📞 (215) 710-2000

Emergencies

For any emergency, call 911.

Business directory

Restaurants, cafés, groceries, pharmacies, gyms, salons and more within 2 miles of campus: Newtown borough's State and Sycamore Streets, the shopping centers on Eagle Road, and Tyler State Park next door. Not exhaustive — business owner? Use "Business login" at the bottom of the page.

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