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Presque Isle State Park (/ prɛsk / PRESK) is a 3,112-acre (1,259 ha) Pennsylvania State Park on an arching, sandy peninsula jutting into Lake Erie, 4 miles (6 km) west of the city of Erie, in Millcreek Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The peninsula sweeps northeastward, surrounding Presque Isle Bay along the park's ...
Popular for its steelhead fishing, the park is situated between Pennsylvania Route 5 on the south and Lake Erie on the north. The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources proposed to buy the 81-acre (330,000 m 2) parcel in 2007 from Girard for $400,000 in order to join it to contiguous Erie Bluffs State Park, which has been ...
March 30, 1978(#78002397) Dunn Boulevard, Lighthouse Park42°08′38″N80°03′44″W / 42.1439°N 80.0622°W / 42.1439; -80.0622 (Erie Land Lighthouse) Erie. First lighthouse on the Great Lakes built in the U.S. Current tower constructed in 1867 after the first two were demolished due to foundation problems.
Erie Bluffs State Park is a 587-acre (238 ha) [2] Pennsylvania state park in Girard and Springfield Townships, Erie County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park is the largest undeveloped stretch of land overlooking Lake Erie in Pennsylvania. Erie Bluffs State Park is just north of Pennsylvania Route 5 near Lake City and 12 miles (19 km ...
State parks range in size from 3 acres (1.2 ha) to 21,122 acres (8,548 ha) and comprise one percent of Pennsylvania's total land area. [2] According to Dan Cupper (1993), "Pennsylvania is the thirty-third largest state, but only Alaska and California have more park land". [3] [4]
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.
Promised Land State Park. Promised Land State Park is a Pennsylvania state park in Blooming Grove, Greene and Palmyra Townships, Pike County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The approximately 3,000-acre (1,214 ha) park is mostly surrounded by Delaware State Forest. It is in the Poconos and sits at an elevation of 1,800 feet (549 m).
Lake Erie (42.2° N, 81.2W) has a mean elevation of 571 feet (174 m) [ 8 ] above sea level. It has a surface area of 9,990 square miles (25,874 km 2) [ 7 ] with a length of 241 statute miles (388 km; 209 nmi) [ 7 ] and breadth of 57 statute miles (92 km; 50 nmi) [ 7 ] at its widest points. It is the shallowest of the Great Lakes with an average ...