Prouty Place State Park
| Prouty Place State Park | |
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 Prouty Run at Prouty Place State Park | |
  Location of Prouty Place State Park in Pennsylvania  Prouty Place State Park (the United States) | |
| Location | Summit, Potter, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Coordinates | 41°39′27″N 77°54′45″W / 41.65750°N 77.91250°W |
| Area | 5 acres (2.0 ha)[1] |
| Elevation | 1,631 ft (497 m)[2] |
| Established | 1925[1] |
| Governing body | Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources |
| Website | Prouty Place State Park |
Prouty Place State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on 5 acres (2 ha) in Summit Township, Potter County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park is 5 miles (8 km) southwest of Pennsylvania Route 44, along Prouty Road near the junction with Long Toe Road, near Sweden Valley. The park provides access points for hiking, hunting and fishing in the Susquehannock State Forest. It is a small rest area for hikers and other travellers to the wilds of Potter County.[1]
Prouty Place was designated a Class "B" campground by the Pennsylvania Department of Forestry from 1922 to 1925. During the Great Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps built the current picnic area and former campsites between 1935 and 1938. Prouty Place State Park officially became part of the Pennsylvania State Parks system in 1957. The park is a short distance from the Susquehannock Trail System, and is connected to it by a link trail.[3]
In 2000 the park became part of the Hills Creek State Park complex, an administrative grouping of eight state parks in Potter and Tioga counties.[4] As of 2009, Prouty Place State Park is tied for second smallest state park in Pennsylvania (Upper Pine Bottom State Park, a picnic area to the southeast in Lycoming County, is also only 5 acres (2 ha)). Only Sand Bridge State Park (another picnic area) is smaller.[1] Since the 2010s, the park includes no developed or maintained facilities, and offers only back country camping and access to nearby hiking trails and hunting/fishing areas.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Prouty Place State Park". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Archived from the original on March 24, 2012. Retrieved November 1, 2006.
- ^ "Prouty Place State Park". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. August 30, 1990. Retrieved December 23, 2007.
- ^ Susquehannock State Forest Map (PDF) (Map). 1 inch = 2 miles. Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 20, 2012. Retrieved March 3, 2009.
- ^ "Manager named at Hills Creek Lake". Wellsboro Gazette. February 2, 2000. p. 6. Archived from the original on July 14, 2011. Retrieved April 9, 2009. Note: the eight parks in the Hills Creek State Park Complex are Cherry Springs, Colton Point, Denton Hill, Hills Creek, Leonard Harrison, Lyman Run, Patterson, and Prouty Place.
- ^ Cramer, Ben (2017). Hiking the Susquehannock Trail. Spring Mills, Pennsylvania: Scott Adams Enterprises. pp. 198–199. ISBN 9780986253997.
External links
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- "Official DCNR brochure on Cherry Springs, Patterson, and Prouty Place state parks" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 28, 2012. (1.1 MB)
