Cherry Springs State Park
History
Native American
Archaeological evidence shows that human beings have lived in what is now Pennsylvania is for at least 10,000 BC. The first settlers were Paleo-Indian nomadic hunters known for their stone tools. Hunter-gatherers of the Archaic period, which lasted from 7000 to 1000 BC local C., using a wider variety of more sophisticated stone tools. The period marked the gradual transition forest peoples semi-permanent and horticulture, between 1000 BC C. and 1500 AD. Archaeological evidence found in the state of this time includes a range of pottery types and styles, burial mounds funeral, pipes, bows and arrows and ornaments.
Map of the park and its facilities
Historical records show that the first known inhabitants of the drainage basin of West Branch Susquehanna River, which includes Cherry Springs State Park, were the Iroquois-speaking Susquehannock. They were a matriarchal society that lived in large village homes long fence. Decimated by disease and war with the Five Nations of the Iroquois, by 1675 had died, moved away, or have been assimilated other tribes. Another name for the tribe is "Susquehanna", where the river and the Susquehannock State Forest almost entirely around the park are named for them.
After the departure of the Susquehannock, the lands of the West Branch Susquehanna River valley is under the nominal control of the Iroquois, who lived in long houses, especially in what is now upstate New York, and had a strong confederacy which gave them power beyond their numbers. The Seneca, members of the Confederation Iroquois hunted in the area of what is now Cherry Springs State Park. Its nearest villages were 51 mph (82 km) northeast in modern Painted Post, New York, and 43 miles (69 kilometers) southeast in what is now Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. The Seneca had temporary hunting camps to the east in the area of Pine Creek Gorge. To fill the vacuum left by the demise of the Susquehannock, Iroquois also encouraged displaced tribes from the east to settle in the basin of West Branch, including the Lenape (or Delaware) and Shawnee.
The Seneca and now too few to pass through the area and had no native solution to a minimum. The French War and India (17541763) led to the migration of many Native Americans westward to the Ohio River basin, and more left after the American Revolutionary War (17,751,783). The United States acquired the last purchase, including what is now Cherry Springs State Park, the Iroquois in the second Treaty of Fort Stanwix, in October 1784. In the that followed, Native Americans almost entirely to the left of Pennsylvania.
Pioneers and wood
Potter County was formed from a part Lycoming County on March 26, 1804, but the difficult terrain and dense old-growth forest prevented the new county of being settled by European Americans until 1808. Before the arrival of William Penn and Quaker settlers 1682, 90 percent of what is now Pennsylvania was covered with forests:-square-mile over 31,000 (80,000 km2) Eastern white pine, eastern spruce, and mixed hardwoods. The forests in and around the three original counties, Philadelphia, Bucks, and Chester, were the first to be harvested, like the early settlers used the available timber and cleared land for agriculture. At the time of the American Revolution, logging had reached the regions and mountainous interior, and became a leader in the industry in Pennsylvania. The trees furnished fuel to heat homes, many tannin for tanning the state, and wood for construction, furniture, and making a barrel. Large areas of forest were harvested by miners to fire iron furnaces. Rifle Stocks and tiles were made from wood from Pennsylvania, as well as a wide variety of household utensils, and the first Conestoga wagons.
The CCC built this replica Cherry Springs Hotel, the tavern built in 1818 by Jonathan Edgcomb.
The surrounding Cherry Springs State Park has been a desert for much of its history. A path bridle was cut through the woods in 18061807, and was expanded to accommodate the cars in 1812. (Modern Pennsylvania Route 44, passing through the park, follows the course of this road between Jersey Shore and Coudersport.) In 1818 the Ceres Land Company, owner of much land in Potter County and attempted to open the area to the solution, hired the first settlers, Jonathan Edgcomb, to build a tavern or a hotel for travelers on the site of the park. The hotel was in a very remote location 16 miles (26 km) south of Coudersport, and visitors were few, occasional wanderer or Native Americans.
Edgcomb and his wife received 100 acres (40 hectares) of land in exchange for hotel construction and in operation for three years. When the contract expired in 1821, they sold their land and left the area, but the hotel and land that Edgcomb had clarified that is known as "Elimination of Edgcomb. The Jersey Shore and Coudersport turnpike was built along the path between 1825 wagon and 1834, and tolls were collected for driving on the road until 1860. The park is located in the town of West Branch, who joined from Eulalia township in 1856. A post office was opened at Edgcomb Compensation in 1873, the villagers requested the post office to change the name to "Cherryville", by a group of trees near Black Cherry. However, since there was already a Cherryville, Pennsylvania, post office in Lehigh Township in Northampton County, the name of "Cherry Spring" was chosen as a compromise. Over time, an "s" was added, hence the name "Cherry Springs." Also there are at least two springs in the park.
In 1874 a new and larger hotel was built in across the road from the original tavern. It provided accommodation for wealthy summer visitors from Coudersport. This part of the Potter County became known for the abundance of hunting and fishing, and attracted hunters and fishermen who also stayed in Cherry Springs Hotel. This season as a sportsman paradise was not to last, as the most profitable timber industry came to West Branch and surrounding municipalities, that were home to "some of the highest, straightest wood standing along the east coast of the United States.
When he reached the wood Cherry Springs in late 1880, White Pine and Eastern Hemlock including the surrounding mountains. Loggers harvest the trees and sent them by the streams of the West Susquehanna Branch Susquehanna River to rise and sawmill in Williamsport. Clearcutting allowed silt to choke the streams, and there was nothing, except the dry canopy out, which became a fire hazard. As a result, large tracts of land were left scorched and barren, and much of the central state became desert known as Pennsylvania. "himself Cherry Springs Hotel burned in 1897 and the property was abandoned.
Civilian Conservation Corps
As timber was exhausted and burnt earth, many companies simply abandoned their lands. In 1897 the Pennsylvania General Assembly passed a law authorizing the purchase of "unseated lands for forest reservations" and the first state forest lands in Pennsylvania were acquired the following year. The first land Susquehannock State Forest was acquired in 1901, the cost for major acquisitions was an average of $ 2.50 per acre (6.18 dollars per hectare). This is roughly equivalent to $ 43 per acre ($ 107 per hectare) in 2010 terms. Since 2003, the Susquehannock State Forest, which almost completely surrounds the park, covered 265,000 acres (107 000 hectares), mainly in Potter County with small plots in Clinton and McKean counties.
"The largest and most unique flags of CCC-built picnic "in Pennsylvania was built in 1939.
Top: along the path below: Astronomy field side.
The Park traces its existence in 1922 when the Pennsylvania Forestry Department established three scenic areas in the state forests as part a plan "to preserve its natural beauty." One was the 6.5-mile (10.5 km) "Cherry Springs Scenic Drive" in the former Coudersport Turnpike-Costa Jersey. That same year, one of 16 "Class B" public campgrounds in state forests was at Cherry Springs Drive. [B] These camps are free for the public to use and they were all drinking water, picnic tables, a wood stove, garbage, and a latrine. The land where the hotel was purchased Sat by the state 1932.
Like many state parks in north central Pennsylvania, the development of the facilities at Cherry Springs was the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a work relief program for young families without work. Established in 1933 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt s New Deal legislation, the CCC has designed to combat unemployment during the Great Depression. It operated in every U.S. state and established ten CCC camps in the Susquehannock State Forest, which eight were in Potter County.
Cherry Springs was the home of CCC Camp S-136-P, which was established on May 27, 1933. According to 1936 field history: "A Through the efforts of members [CCC] Cherry Springs Park, formerly a clearing has been transformed into a park of which the people of Potter County may be proud. "[Sic] A historical recreation of the original tavern was built, as well as a shooting range, picnic tables and shelters, roads and hiking trails. Young people from the CCC camps worked to clear the undergrowth of forests as a fire prevention measure. After clearing the forest, planted forests of red spruce and white pine and an apple orchard. Camp-Pa-136 ended July 10, 1937.
The picnic pavilion other CCC-built roof and is hexagonal in the camping area.
The men of the CCC Camp S-88-Pa, based Run in Potter County near Lyman, also active in the park. In 1939, built a structure of Cherry Springs is "the largest and most unique flags of CCC-built picnic" in the state, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The pavilion overlooks PA Route 44 and H-shaped, with two partially enclosed structures (vertical lines H) connected by a corridor (Horizontal bar). The corridor is a roof supported by eight wooden columns log railings. The ends of the pavilion is built log walls with ringing white as log cabins. Each end has a large opening for the corridor in one of the walls, while the other three sides are fully enclosed in a large window on the wall facing the road, a stone fireplace and chimney on the opposite wall and a door flanked by windows on the opposite wall of the corridor.
A 1984 survey State Parks of Pennsylvania found the "three picnic pavilions, latrines and its partners" at Cherry Springs "typical of smaller areas use per day built by the CCC. "These buildings are examples of rustic style that stands by the CCC in state parks throughout the Great Depression. Local materials were used in a way that minimizes the impact to the natural environment, and so that it resembled the style of building pioneering settlements of the Appalachian Mountains.
Besides the two active CCC camps in the park, Cherry Springs was also home to Camp Elliott, which was led by the Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters (forerunner Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR)) for college students and other unemployed men. In 1935 he built an airfield, Cherry Springs Intermediate Field, just north of the park. The airfield 40 acres (16 ha) was originally built for emergency landings and later became a small airport. In 1936 there was a runway crowd size 2400 by 500 feet (730 by 150 m), and a hangar. The U.S. entry into World War II led to the final the CCC and all camps were closed in the summer of 1942.
Modern Era
The park has had several names over the years, from its inception 1922 as "Cherry Springs Scenic Drive" and Class B 'camping publicly associated "Cherry Springs." The 1941 Pennsylvania Department Road map of Potter County official is listed as "Cherry Springs State Park." On November 11, 1954, Pennsylvania Geographic Board official name is "Cherry Springs State Forest Picnic Area. "Forrey 1984 History of Pennsylvania State Parks and the 1986 NRHP registration form is still used this name, but Forrey said he was "under the jurisdiction of the Office of State Parks." 1993 Copper of our precious heritage: Pennsylvania State Parks referred 18,931,993 to her as "Cherry Springs State Park, and this remains the official name from 2009.
Up to 10,000 stars, like these, in the constellation Cygnus can be seen in the park
In the post-war, the park was known mainly for its very isolated location and primitive camping facilities. In August 1952 played host to the first Loggers carnival, an annual celebration of the logging industry, which was active again in second-growth forests in the area. The festival, sponsored initially by the Club of Penn-York Lumbermen, features lumberjack competitions as a reminder of the past as well as exhibits of new equipment. In 1987, Galeton Rotary Club took over sponsorship, and changed the name of the event Loggers Fair in 1990.
In the 1980s, the CCC and its work in the park were honored. Cherry Springs State Park was one of several to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Civilian Conservation Corps with a CCC meeting in the summer 1983. On May 11, 1987, the Cherry Springs Picnic Pavilion are listed in the NRHP. No other CCC structures remaining in the park had maintained their historic integrity enough to be included in the NRHP.
Cherry Springs began attracting stargazers in early 1990. In 1999, the "Dark Sky Fund" was established and continues "to improve the experience of watching the stars and astronomy" by funding improvements in the park. In 2000 he was named Cherry Springs Park officially a "Dark Sky" by DCNR, and that year became part of the Hills Creek State Park, an administrative grouping of eight state parks Potter and Tioga counties. The headquarters are in Cherry Springs State Park near Lyman Run. The National Public Observatory picked "as the pilot for Program Stars-n-Parks "in April of 2001. DCNR acquired Cherry Springs Airport in 2006" to expand the global area of dark sky observing and allow greater programming opportunities in the park, and closed in 2007. On June 11, 2008, the International Dark-Sky Association called Cherry Springs State Park the second International Dark Sky Park. " (The first was the Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah.)
Geology and climate
1938 aerial view the park, airport, PA 44 West Branch Pine Creek, and Hopper House Run
Cherry Springs State Park is at an altitude of 2,300 feet (701 m) above sea level the top of the Allegheny Plateau and "close to the glacier boundary. The plateau and mountains of Appalachia are all trained in the Appalachian orogeny about 300 million years ago, when Gondwana (in particular what became Africa) and what became North America collided to form Pangea. Although the region seems mountain, they are not true mountains: for millions of years of erosion have made this a dissected plateau, making the "mountain" field seen today. The hardest of ancient rocks are on top of the ridges, while softer rocks eroded to form valleys.
The park is located in the drainage basin of Pine Creek West Branch, where the underlying rocks are mainly conglomerates, sandstones and shales. Two large rock formations are present Cherry Springs State Park, both at least part of the Carboniferous period. The youngest of them, which is the highest points in the park, is the Pennsylvanian Pottsville Formation, a conglomerate may contain gray sandstone, siltstone and shale, and anthracite coal. Training is the lowest in the late Devonian Mississippi and early Huntley Mountain Formation, which is made of grayish-red shale and sandstone relatively mild olive gray. Out of Brook Park has reduced to the Devonian Catskill Formation, a reddish sandstone.
The Allegheny Plateau has a continental climate, with temperatures occasionally Severe low in winter and the average daily temperature ranges from 20 F (11 C) in winter and 26 F (14 C) in summer. The average annual precipitation for the watershed Pine Creek West Branch is 40-42 inches (1016-1067 mm). January is the coldest month in Cherry Springs, July the warmest and wettest June on. The highest temperature recorded in the park was 94 F (34 C) in 1966, and the record low was 28 F (33.3 C) in 1963.
Climatic conditions during Cherry Springs State Park
Month
Jan
February
Damage
April
May
June
July
Aug.
September
October
November
December
F Average High (C)
29
(-1.7)
34
(1.1)
42
(6.5)
56
(3.13)
67
(4.19)
75
(9.23)
78
(6.25)
77
(25)
69
(6.20)
58
(4.14)
45
(7.2)
33
(0.6)
Average Low F (C)
13
(-10.6)
15
(-9.4)
23
(-5)
33
(0.6)
43
(1.6)
51
(10.6)
54
(2.12)
53
(11.7)
47
(3.8)
37
(2.8)
28
(-2.2)
18
(-7.8)
Precipitation inches (mm)
2.47
(62.7)
2.28
(57.9)
2.84
(72.1)
3.12
(79.2)
3.73
(94.7)
5.63
(143)
4.13
(104.9)
3.99
(101.3)
3.99
(101.3)
3.34
(84.8)
3.59
(91.2)
2.87
(72.9)
Source: The March Weather Channel 7, 2009
Ecology
Owls Aegolius North have been studied in the park.
Cherry Springs state park and the surrounding Susquehannock State Forest have recovered from the clear-cutting of wood. However, the forest composition has changed, so there is now more hardwoods, including the Maple Sugar and Black Cherry, and less the East White Pine and Eastern Hemlock. The park also has apple trees in the garden CCC. Over 400 species of birds have been found in Pennsylvania, including 186 breeding in the state. Birds such as ospreys, hawks, owls, nightjars, and bald eagles have returned to the park and State Forest, and Aegolius owls were studied in the park.
Some animals that were extinct locally also have returned or have been reintroduced in the area, including white-tailed deer, elk, fishers (a kind of weasel), and otters. Although banned in the park, hunting is allowed in the forest around the state, which regained its title as a "paradise for athletes" in the 20th century. Game species include Black Bears, White-tailed deer, ducks, Ruffed Grouse, rabbit, gray and red squirrels and wild turkeys. Other animals in the park and the forest are chipmunks, mink, raccoons, porcupines, woodchucks, and the occasional Bobcat and frogs, beetles and moths.
A branch of the House rises Hopper run inside the park, and flows east and then north on the West Branch of Pine Creek. West Branch Road (or Branch Road) and follow the valleys of the race and the stream of the Route 44 east of Pennsylvania 10 miles (16 km) Galeton. PA 44 or less follows the boundary line of the Pine Creek watershed basin to the north and south Sinnemahoning Creek. This leaves 44 PA Fork Road in the park and follows East Fork Creek Sinnemahoning Southwest Valley 12 miles (19 km) to the town of Conrad. Both streams are approved trout streams to fish, which means that it's with trout in season.
Recreation
dark skies
The Trifid Nebula (M20) in Sagittarius, as seen from the park
The Astronomers and astrologers see Cherry Springs State Park for the darkness and clarity of its skies, making it "perhaps the last best refuge of the night sky natural "in the eastern half of the United States. The sky at Cherry Springs is classified as a 2 on the Bortle Dark-Sky Scale, which means that almost no pollution light. Such "truly dark, starry skies are not available to two thirds of the world population, including 99 percent of people in the U.S. mainland and Western Europe. With the best conditions, 10,000 stars are visible to the naked eye in the park, the clouds appear only as holes black in the night skies and the Milky Way is so bright that it casts a shadow visible. In contrast, residents of the big city you can see a dozen stars much, and even in rural areas can normally only see 2,0003,000 stars. The Milky Way can not be seen by most in the eastern United States, even when There is moonlight in the dark.
The quality of night skies in the park and its growing popularity to observe the stars are the result of several factors. Cherry Springs is in the middle of the 262 000 undeveloped acres (106,000 ha) Susquehannock State Forest, and is at a height of 2,300 feet (701 m) above sea level. Because it is in the Allegheny Plateau, there are no peaks of the mountains to block the sky, and the field of Astronomy offers 360 degrees of unobstructed view. The nearest city is Williamsport, 60 miles (97 km) southeast. surrounding communities sit in the deep valleys to intervene field displays much of the light they produce, the park has no skyglow artificial in any direction. Cherry Springs is generally free of fog and its latitude puts it in excellent position to observe the galactic center of the Milky Way. The remote location also means there is little commercial air traffic to interfere with astrophotography, while PA Route 44 continues to provide relatively easy access to the park from Interstate 80.
In addition to these natural factors, much has been done on purpose to make the sky in light and dark park and help keep them that way. Inside the park, the old overhead power lines have been buried not to obstruct views, all the lights are protected and all the white lights have turned red, which has the least effect on night vision and astrophotography. The light from passing vehicles is blocked by embankments of land covered with grass or shrubs and spruce and the gate of field Astronomy has a special light-blocking fabric. Dark Sky Park Fund has paid for many of these improvements since 1999.
Two of the three domes of the astronomy park, the walls to prevent the wind moving over the observation telescopes
From 2006 acquisition of Cherry Springs airport, a new public course schedule has been established in the previous track. This field is northeast of Route 44 and PA is intended for educational or stargazing, but not for those who spend the night. During the night and observers with large telescopes, astronomy use Field southwest of the road. overnight visitors may only use flashlights with red filters, and may only be directed to the earth. The field of Astronomy has restrictions on the lights and parts of the park are free span areas.
To help preserve dark skies at Cherry Springs State Park, Tri-County Rural enterprise install electric light light shield caps outdoors in local homes for free. In 2001, the General Assembly of Pennsylvania passed the "Law of lighting control outdoors, which established the park as well as Preserve "Dark Sky" and required a minimum and protected in all new lighting installations state to reduce light contamination. A design guide for the Pennsylvania Wilds region, including the park emphasizes the importance of maintaining the dark sky. The DCNR spent $ 396 000 in June 2007 to buy the mineral rights under 1,980 acres (800 hectares) of park and state forest to avoid natural gas drilling and development partners there.
A wind farm has been proposed on a site of 13.7 miles (22.0 km) of the park. In 2008 the County Potter passed an ordinance that turbine lights do not "interfere with the state-designated Dark Sky Preserve at Cherry Springs State Park." That same year DCNR commissioned a study on the impact of the wind farm, which concluded a red warning lights on the turbines would not affect the darkness of the sky and only can be seen directly from the field of Astronomy in unusual conditions. Other members of the astronomical community contested these findings and the fear that new light on the theme of "several dozen wind turbines near the park" will degrade observations and astrophotography. The study also recommends that the DCNR and the light shield redirect in nearby Denton Hill State Park ski area down to make the sky darker at Cherry Springs.
Astronomical observations
Telescopes belonging to amateur astronomers await nightfall
The staff at Cherry Springs State Park had no intention of it becoming an attraction for amateur astronomers, astronomers came to them instead. In 1997 or 1998 Chip Harrison, the park supervisor, she saw a man looking through a telescope at the Park at around 1 AM. When Harrison asked why the man had arrived there, said the astronomer who had noticed a black patch in the north central isolated Pennsylvania in the satellite photos of the night. Cherry Springs State Park is in that patch, one of the best locations east of the Mississippi River to observe the stars.
A growing number of astronomers began arriving at Cherry Springs, mostly in the period of 14 days the dark sky around the new moon, between the last quarter phases of the first quarter. The park is open all year and between 60 and 85 nights each year the best external conditions, when the apparent magnitudes of the faintest stars visible can vary from 7.1 to 7.5. Astronomy Park field has been updated to accommodate these astronomers. In 2005 a rotation 15 feet (4.6 m) frying observatory dome, two 12-foot (3.7 m) domes of the roof, and a 10-by-12-foot (3.0 by 3.7 m) skies poured were added, and a small amphitheater for programs. The four telescopes protect structures from wind and thermal currents. The next year specific filters 4 to 6 feet (1.2 and 1.8 m) diameter were placed at random in the field, and electric pedestals, each with six outlets, were added to the energy telescopes and computers. In 2009, the Wi-Fi access was added to the field astronomy.
The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) in Canes Venatici constellation as seen from the Field of Astronomy
While a typical clear night can be 50 to 100 observations, each year the park hosts two major stars that attract both several hundred astronomers for several nights. The Black Forest Star Party, sponsored by the Central Pennsylvania Observers College, has been held every autumn 1999. The Cherry Springs Star Party, sponsored by the Astronomical Society of Harrisburg, is celebrated every June since 2005. There are also free public programs in the amphitheater in the old airport site, some of which are part of the National Public Observatory Stars-n-Parks. The meteor shower will also appeal to a crowd and the aurora borealis can be seen from the park. Stargazing business, "Crystal Spheres" has been established and presents music, and Star with a one-hour concert followed by an hour of stargazing. These "nature tourism" has a positive economic impact for the area.
Awards and recognition of the press have come to Cherry Springs and its staff. BEMUS Thom, who initiated and coordinates the Stars-n-Parks program, was appointed in 2002 DCNR Volunteer of the Year. In 2007, Dark Sky Park programming and Environmental Education staff received the Excellence in Programming Award Pennsylvania Recreation and Parks Society. Operations manager Chip Harrison and his wife, Maxine, who runs the Dark Sky Fund, received a 2008 award from the Pennsylvania Outdoor Lighting Council for the "accession unbreakable and the active promotion of the principles of responsible outdoor lighting at Cherry Springs State Park. The Cherry Springs DCNR has appointed one of the "Twenty Must-Pennsylvania State Parks, "specifically by having the darkest" night sky on the east coast. "Appeared Cherry Springs State Park in the national press in 2003, when the U.S. Today named him one of "10 Great Places for some stars in your eyes", in 2006, when National Geographic Adventure which appears in "Pennsylvania: The Wild, Wild East" and in The New York Times in 2007. All these were before he was named an International Dark Sky Park by the International Dark-Sky Association in 2008.
Lumberjack Show
An event saw the woodcutters Show
Show loggers attracts thousands of visitors to Cherry Springs State Park in the first weekend in August. It has been held annually since 1952 and has been sponsored by the Galeton Rotary Club since 1987. In 2008 events in the three-day fair included deforestation, transverse, log rolling, ax launch, the horse pulling the Spring cutting board, standing block chop, saw and competitions and demonstrations. The 2008 show also featured historical recreations of life in a logging camp, musical performances and food vendors, crafts and equipment related to the timber industry.
The show and its events, which celebrate the county's history Heavy Potter, have changed over time. In the early years, up to three paper mills created just for the carnival, and there was a partner at Ball Loggers Saturday night, after completion of the carnival. Loggers of Show was the first woman competitor in 1979. Certain events have been tried and abandoned in 1987 seminars an hour on topics such as "outdoor adventures Mules" and the first "Queen of Carnival Loggers" were introduced, and in 1993 there were tractor pulling lawn tractors. In 1990 he changed the name of "Loggers de Carnaval" to the Loggers' Show ", a third day was added, and an ecumenical religious service was held yesterday morning at the picnic pavilion. Next year's show was part of the STIHL Timbersports Series and some of the competition was televised by ESPN. Although no longer part of the STIHL series, from 2008 many of the same athletes competed in the contest.
The attendance was 4,000 the first year and grew to 12,000 three years later, in 1955, then peaked at 33,000 in 1962, with almost the same amount in 1965 (32,000) and 1981 (30,000). In 1983, 20,000 visitors attended the fair, 15,000 arrived in 1985, and the assistance of the early 21st century was about 14,000. Admission is charged Cash and prizes are awarded in competitions. Proceeds from the shows at the Club of Penn-York Lumbermen was to promote the timber industry and the support of the Pennsylvania Lumber Museum. The Galeton Rotary Club has used funds to improve the standard of living in and around Galeton, including college scholarships, a new roof for the building of Europe, the support to the local public library, and cleaning and maintenance of the center of the city.
Camping, picnicking and trails
The camp in the park with picnic table
The park has 30 camping sites that can accommodate each of a tent or a recreational vehicle (RV) up to 30 feet (9.1 m) long. The sites have a fire ring, lantern suspension, and a picnic table and are classified as rustic because they have no running water. The camp, which is the southeastern Pennsylvania Route 44 is open from April to December, and reservations are not accepted. The park has two modern toilets, one in the camping area and one in the Countryside of Astronomy. There is also a holding tank dump station for RVs. Although the field of astronomy is not an official campsite, observers during the night can create tents and vehicles in which there are at camp. In addition to the picnic tables and a small pavilion at the camp site, the main picnic area at Cherry Springs is located on the southwest side of Route 44 in and around the great historical, CCC-built pavilion. The area around the flag has many picnic tables located in an old apple orchard and a large stand of white pine and Norway spruce.
Cherry Springs State Park is located at the southern end of a 15 miles (24 km) long route, a single stretch of mountain bike, which starts at Denton Hill State Park and passes through Patterson State Park. In 2005, the trailhead snowmobile at Cherry Springs was taken to the extreme south of the park to avoid the field of Astronomy. The snowmobile trail is one of the many trails for cross country skiing, backpacking, hiking, and ATV and horseback riding in the surrounding Susquehannock State Forest. The 85-mile (137 km) long trail system Susquehannock passes near the park and surrounding loops. South of the park the trail passes through the Hammersley Wild Area, which 30 253 acres (12 243 ha) is roadless wilderness area second largest in Pennsylvania.
Nearby state parks
Cherry Springs State Park is located on Pennsylvania Route 44 in West Branch Township, 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Galeton. The following state parks are within 30 miles (48 km) from Cherry Springs State Park:
Bucktail State Park Area Natural (Cameron and Clinton Counties)
Colton Point State Park (Tioga County)
Denton Hill State Park (Potter County)
Hyner Run State Park (Clinton County)
Hyner View State Park (Clinton County)
Kettle Creek State Park (Clinton Counties)
Leonard Harrison State Park (Tioga County)
Lyman run state park (Potter County)
Ole Bull State Park (County of Potter)
Patterson State Park (Potter County)
Prouty Place State Park (Potter County)
Sinnemahoning State Park (Cameron and Potter Counties)
Sizerville State Park (the counties of Cameron and Potter)
Panoramic view of the park, from left to right: astronomy bulletin board, flag CCC-built picnic, pump house, field astronomy, sky shed and three domes of the astronomy observation, information visualization, modern toilets, an amphitheater, and a CCC-built replica of the Cherry Springs Tavern (log cabin across Pennsylvania Route 44).
Notes
a. ^ From April 2009, the official site of Cherry Springs State Park still lists the area of 48 acres (19 ha), as well as Forrey 1984 History of State Parks Pennsylvania. This was the size of the park before the Cherry Springs Airport was closed and much of their land was transferred to the park. When the airport was built 40 acres (16 ha), and had expanded in size to 59 acres (24 ha) in 1981. The airport land was owned by the Bureau of Forestry, part of the DCNR together with the Office of State Parks.
b. ^ Although the park was over 6.5 miles (10.5 km) Cherry Springs Drive, the exact endpoints of the unit are not clear. There are two views of the park in southeast Pennsylvania Route 44 is 3.1 miles (5.0 km) from the park to the water tank hole Vista (looking north), and 1.8 miles (2.9 km) from the park to Cherry Springs Vista (facing south). Cherry Springs Fire Tower is 1.9 miles (3.1 km) south of the park, just south of Cherry Springs view. Coudersport is 15 miles (24 km) northwest of the park along Route 44 and Cherry Springs "Class B" public camping about11 miles (18 km) from Coudersport, or about 4 miles (6.4 km) of our park. From 2009 this area is part of the State Forest, but has no park facilities. The United States Geological survey map topographic (Ayers Hill quadrant) show a "Little Cherry Springs Park" in this field. Patterson State Park is a short distance northwest of the place of Little Cherry Springs Park, and is 6.5 miles (10.5 km) along PA 44 from Patterson to view Cherry Springs.
References
^ Ab "Cherry Springs State Park." Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. August 30, 1990. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1171676. Retrieved on February 10, 2008.
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