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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 ...
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 ...
Smallest: 19th and Wayne, and Euclid Park, each only 1/3 acre. Most popular: Glenwood Park, Frontier Park, Walczak Park, and Rodger Young Park. Hidden jewel: E 41st and Brewer has unique playground equipment. Underappreciated: Hillside, McKinley, Columbus, Lighthouse, and Barbara Nitkiewicz Parks.
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.
Official website. Keystone State Park is a 1,200-acre (486 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Derry Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Located off U.S. Route 22 near New Alexandria, the park opened in 1945. Its main attraction is the man-made 78-acre (32 ha) Keystone Lake.
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]
The United States Office of Management and Budget [14] has designated Erie County as the Erie, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). As of the 2010 U.S. Census [ 15 ] the metropolitan area ranked 11th-most populous in Pennsylvania and the 164th-most populous in the United States with a population of 280,566.
Area code. 814. Website. www.millcreektownship.com. Millcreek Township is a township in Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 54,070 at the 2020 census, [ 3 ] making it the 14th-largest municipality in the state. [ 4 ] and the largest township in Western Pennsylvania. Millcreek Township is home to the entrance to Presque ...