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Website. Parker Dam State Park. Parker Dam State Park is a 968-acre (392 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Huston Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park is surrounded by Moshannon State Forest. Parker Dam State park is 17 miles (27 km) north of Clearfield on Pennsylvania Route 153 just off exit 111 of Interstate 80.
Admission to all Pennsylvania state parks is free, although there are fees charged for use of cabins, marinas, etc. Pennsylvania's state parks offer "over 7,000 family campsites, 286 cabins, nearly 30,000 picnic tables, 56 major recreational lakes, 10 marinas, 61 beaches for swimming, 17 swimming pools" and over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of trails.
French Creek State Park. CCC barracks near the park office. French Creek State Park is a 7,977-acre (3,228 ha) Pennsylvania state park in North Coventry and Warwick Townships in Chester County and Robeson and Union Townships in Berks County, Pennsylvania. [ 3] It straddles northern Chester County and southern Berks County along French Creek.
More than half of Pennsylvania is forested, a total of 16,621,968 acres, according to a 2019 U.S. Department of Agriculture report. Only 26% is owned by state or local governments, however.
Gifford Pinchot State Park is a 2,338-acre (946 ha) Pennsylvania state park in northern York County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It was named in honor of noted conservationist and former Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot. [2] The fourth chief of the United States Division of Forestry, Pinchot was susbsequently appointed as the first ...
Ricketts Glen State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on 13,193 acres (5,280 ha) in Columbia, Luzerne, and Sullivan counties in Pennsylvania in the United States. Ricketts Glen is a National Natural Landmark known for its old-growth forest and 24 named waterfalls along Kitchen Creek, which flows down the Allegheny Front escarpment from the Allegheny Plateau to the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians.
List of Pennsylvania state parks [ edit] List of Pennsylvania state parks is a complete list of all current 120 state parks in Pennsylvania, and has three shorter lists of all known former parks and other names for these parks. It has had a peer review, which is here, that found no major problems. The suggestions for improvement have all been ...
The United States Secret Service uses code names for U.S. presidents, first ladies, and other prominent persons and locations. [ 1] The use of such names was originally for security purposes and dates to a time when sensitive electronic communications were not routinely encrypted; today, the names simply serve for purposes of brevity, clarity ...