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History

Native Americans

Archaeological finds show that people who lived in present-day Pennsylvania since at least 10,000 BC. The first settlers were Paleo-Indian nomadic hunters known from their stone tools. The hunters and gatherers of the Archaic period, which lasted locally by 7000, around 1000 BC, used a greater variety of more sophisticated stone tools. The Woodland period marked the gradual transition to semi-permanent villages and horticulture, between 1000 BC and 1500 AD. Archaeological evidence found for it in the State from this period includes a number of ceramic types and styles, burial mounds, pipes, sheets and arrows, and ornaments.

Map of the park and its facilities

Historical records show that the earliest known inhabitants of the West Branch Susquehanna River Basin, which includes Cherry Springs State Park, were the Iroquois-speaking Susquehannock. They were a matriarchal society that long in big houses Stockaded lived in villages. Decimated by disease and war with the Five Nations Iroquois, who had from 1675 she died has been moved away or assimilated into other tribes. Another name for the tribe is "Susquehanna," and both the river and the Susquehannock State Forest, which surrounds almost completely the park are named for them.

After the departure of the Susquehannock, the countries of the West Branch Susquehanna River valley were under the nominal control of the Iroquois, who lived in long houses, before especially in today's New York and had a strong confederation to them power over their numbers. The Seneca, members of the Iroquois Confederacy, in the region of present-day Cherry Springs State Park hunted. Your nearest villages, 51 miles (82 km) northeast of modern Painted Post, New York, and 43 miles (69 km) southeast to what is now Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. The Seneca had temporary hunting camps in the area east of Pine Creek Gorge. To fill this gap by the decline the Susquehannock, the Iroquois left also encouraged displaced tribes from the East in the West Branch watershed settlement, including the Lenape (or Delaware) and Shawnee.

The Seneca must go, very few travelers through the area and kept non-native solution to a minimum. The French and Indian War (17541763) led to the migration of many Native Americans westward to the Ohio River basin, and more went to the American War of Independence (17,751,783). The United States acquired the last purchase, including what is now Cherry Springs State Park, by the Iroquois in the second Treaty of Fort Stanwix in October 1784th In the following years, Native Americans almost entirely left Pennsylvania.

Pioneers and lumber

Potter County was on from one part of Lycoming County 26th March founded in 1804, but the difficult terrain and thick old-growth forest prevented for the new community will be handled by European-Americans to 1808. Before the arrival of William Penn and his Quaker colonists in 1682, up to 90 percent of what is now Pennsylvania was covered with forest: more than 31,000 square miles (80,000 km2) of the Eastern White Pine Eastern Hemlock, and a mixture hardwood. The forests in the vicinity of the three original counties, Philadelphia, Bucks, and Chester, were the first to be harvested, as the early settlers took advantage of the readily available wood and cleared land for agriculture. From the time of the American Revolution, logging had the interior and mountain regions reached, and was to a leading industry in Pennsylvania. Trees established fuel for heating houses, tannin for the state of the many tanneries, and wood for construction, furniture and make whistles. Large tracts of forest were harvested by Colliers furnaces fire. Rifle butts and wooden shingles were from Pennsylvania, as well as a variety of household appliances Dishes, and the first Conestoga wagon.

The CCC built this replica of the Cherry Springs Hotel, the inn by Jonathan Edgcombe built in 1818.

The environment Cherry Springs State Park has a wilderness for much of its history. A bridle path through the forest was cut in 18061807, and was expanded to include cars in 1812. (Modern Pennsylvania Route 44 which goes through the park, follows the course of this route between Jersey Shore and Coudersport.) In 1818 the Ceres Land Company, a large part of the land held in Potter County and searched the area to open settlement, took a early settler, Jonathan Edgcombe, a tavern or a hotel for travelers and build on the site of the park. The hotel was in a very remote area 16 miles (26 km) south of Coudersport, and his visitors were few, and occasionally wandering travelers and Native Americans.

Edgcombe and his wife received 100 acres (40 hectares) of land in exchange for the construction of the hotel and it runs for three years. When the contract expired in 1821, sold It was their land and left the area, but the hotel and land that had cleared Edgcombe known as "clearing Edgcombe's". The Jersey Shore and Coudersport Turnpike was built along the cart path 1825-1834, and tolls were collected for the trip on the way to 1860. The park is located in West Branch Township, by Eulalia Township was established in 1856. The post office was opened on Edgcombe's Clearing in 1873, the local petition to the United States Post Office, the name to change "Cherryville", for a group of nearby trees, Black Cherry. However, there already was a Cherryville, Pennsylvania, a post office in Lehigh Township in Northampton County, the name "Cherry Spring" was chosen as a compromise. Over time, an "s" was added, hence the name "Cherry Springs. "There are at least two springs in the park

In 1874 a new and larger hotel was on the other side of the road from the original Tavern built. It provided accommodation for wealthy summer visitors from Coudersport. This part of the Potter County was known for an abundance of wild game and fish, and drew hunters and Anglers who have stayed even at the Cherry Springs Hotel. This era as a "sportsman's paradise" was not least because the more profitable timber industry came West Branch and the surrounding townships, where "some of the highest, straightest wood left standing were" along the east coast of the United States.

As loggers Cherry Springs reached in the late 1880s, are Eastern White Pine and Eastern Hemlock the surrounding mountains. Lumberjacks harvested the trees and sent them after the streams, the West Branch Susquehanna Susquehanna boom and saw mills in Williamsport. Clear-cutting allowed mud to choke the streams, and nothing was out of the dried Treetops, a fire hazard was left. As a result of burning large tracts of land and remained barren, and much is known of the central part of the state as "Pennsylvania Desert". The Cherry Springs hotel itself burned in 1897 and the property was abandoned.

Civilian Conservation Corps

As the wood was used up and burned the land, Many companies simply abandoned their holdings. In 1897, the Pennsylvania General Assembly passed legislation that authorized the purchase of land unseated for forest reservations "and the first Pennsylvania state forest land was acquired the following year. The first land for the Susquehannock State Forest was purchased in 1901; the cost of major acquisitions, an average of $ 2.50 per acre ($ 6.18 per ha). This is about $ 43 per acre ($ 107 per ha) in 2010 terms. From 2003, the Susquehannock State Forest, which surrounds the park almost completely covered 265 000 acres (107,000 hectares), mostly in Potter County, with small paths in Clinton and McKean Counties.

"The largest and most unique was the CCC-built picnic pavilions" in Pennsylvania built 1939th

Top: Highway Page, bottom: Astronomy Field page.

The Park traces its existence back to 1922 when the Pennsylvania Department of Forestry established three nature reserves in forests as part of a "plan for maintaining its natural beauty." One of them is the 6.5-mile (10.5 km) was "Cherry Springs Scenic Drive" on the old Coudersport-Jersey Shore Turnpike. That same year, one of the 16 "Class B" public campgrounds in state forests was at the Cherry Springs Drive. [B] The campsites were for the public to use freely, and all had drinking water, picnic tables, a fireplace, garbage can and a latrine. The land where the hotel sat was bought by the state in 1932.

How many state parks was in north central Pennsylvania, the development of facilities at Cherry Springs the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a work program of assistance for unemployed young men from families. Founded in 1933 as part of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt 'S New Deal legislation of the CCC was designed to combat unemployment during the Great Depression. It operated in every U.S. state, and established CCC ten o'clock Camps in the Susquehannock State Forest, eight of which were in Potter County.

Cherry Springs was the home of CCC Camp S-136-Pa, on 27 Mai was founded in 1933. According to the camp 1936 story: "Through the efforts of the [CCC] enrollees Cherry Springs Park, a former clearing has been transformed into a park, of which the people in Potter County can be proud. "[Sic] A historical replica of the original tavern was built, there was a shooting range, picnic tables and shelters, roads and hiking trails. The young men of the CCC camps worked to brush from the forest as a fire safety measure clearly. After clearing the forest, planted stands of spruce and pine, white and an apple orchard. Camp-Pa-136 closed on 10 July 1937.

The other CCC-built picnic pavilion has a hexagonal roof and is in the campground.

Men from CCC Camp S-88-Pa, based in nearby Lyman Run in Potter County, were also in the park operate. In 1939 they built a structure that Cherry Springs is the largest unique and listed the CCC-built picnic pavilions "in the state, and on the National Register of Historic Places. The pavilion overlooking PA Route 44 and is shaped like an H, with two partially enclosed structures (the vertical lines of H), connected by a breezeway (horizontal bar). The breezeway is a roof of eight columns, with log log railing supports. The ends of the pavilions are built from the log walls with white-sounding, like log cabins. Each end has a large opening to the breezeway into a wall while the other three sides are fully enclosed with a large window in the wall before the motorway, a stone fireplace and chimney on the opposite wall, and a door flanked by the Windows on the wall opposite the breezeway.

A 1984 survey of Pennsylvania state parks were the "three picnic pavilions, latrines and the linked "at Cherry Springs" typical of the smallest areas of everyday use by the CCC is built. These houses are examples of the rustic Style built by the CCC in state parks in the Great Depression. Local materials were in a way minimizing use impacts on the natural environment, and in a manner that the architectural style of the pioneer settlements like the Appalachians.

In addition to the two camps CCC actively in the Park, Cherry Springs was also home to Camp Elliott, by the Pennsylvania Department was carried out of the woods and waters (the predecessor of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR)) for students and other unemployed men. In 1935 they built an airfield, Cherry Springs Intermediate Field, north of the park. The 40-acre (16 hectare) airfield was originally built for emergency landings and was later, a small airport. In 1936, a SOD had runway with dimensions of 2,400 by 500 feet (730 by 150 m), and a hangar. The United States entry resulted in the Second World War, the end of the CCC and all their camps were closed in summer 1942nd

Modern Times

The park has had several names over the years, starting with its founding in 1922 as the "Cherry Springs Scenic Drive" and the associated "Cherry Springs 'Class B' camp site. The 1941 Pennsylvania Department of Highways official map of Potter County, it shows as "Cherry Springs State Park. On 11 November 1954, the Pennsylvania Geographic Board officially called it "Cherry Springs State Forest Picnic Area." Forrey 1984 History of Pennsylvania State Parks and the 1986 NRHP nomination form still uses this name, but Forrey clarified that it was "under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of State Parks. Our Priceless Heritage Cupper from 1993 called: Pennsylvania State Parks as she 18,931,993 "Cherry Springs State Park", and this remains the official name of 2009.

seen up to 10,000 stars like this in the constellation Cygnus, is out of the park will

After the war the park was long known mainly for its isolation and primitive campsites. In August 1952 hosted the first Woodsmen's Carnival, an annual celebration of the timber industry, which again was active in the second growth of forests in the region. The festival, originally sponsored by the Penn-York Club Loggers, Logging competitions features such as a memory of the past, as well as displays of new equipment. In 1987, the Galeton Rotary Club took over sponsorship was, and renaming the event the woodsmen show in 1990.

In the 1980s, the CCC and its work were honored in the park. Cherry Springs State Park was one of several to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Civilian Conservation Corps with a CCC reunion in the summer of 1983. On 11 May 1987, the Cherry Springs Picnic Pavilion on the NRHP listed. None of the other remaining CCC structures in the park had retained their historic integrity enough to be included on the NRHP.

Cherry Springs attract stargazers began in the early 1990s. In 1999, the "Dark Sky" Fund "was founded and continues to" watch the stars and to improve astronomy experience "through the financing of improvements to the park in 2000, Cherry Springs officially became a" Dark Sky Park named by the DCNR, and in the same year it became part of the Hills Creek State Park complex, an administrative grouping of eight state parks in Potter and Tioga counties. The National Cherry Springs are nearby Lyman Run State Park, the National Public Observatory raised him "as a pilot for the Stars-n-Parks Program" in April 2001. The DCNR acquired the Cherry Springs Airport In 2006, the total Dark Sky to expand the observation area and allow more opportunities for programming "in the park, and graduated in 2007. On 11 June 2008 The International Dark-Sky Association, called Cherry Springs State Park, the second International Dark Sky Park ". (The first Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah was.)

Geology and climate

1938 aerial photo of the park, Airport, PA 44, West Branch Pine Creek and Hopper House Run

Cherry Springs State Park is located at an altitude of 2300 feet (701 m) above sea level, high up on the Allegheny Plateau and in the vicinity of the glacier boundary. The Plateau and the Appalachian Mountains were All made in the Alleghenian orogeny some 300 million years ago, when Gondwana (which was especially Africa) and what was in North America collided to form Pangaea. Although the region seems hilly, these mountains are not true: Instead of millions of years of erosion have such a dissected plateau, which the "hilly" terrain today. The hardest to old stones are on the back, while the softer rocks eroded away form the valleys.

The park is in the West Branch Pine Creek catchment area in which the underlying rocks are mainly conglomerate, sandstone, slate and. Two large rocks are in Cherry Springs State Park, both composed of at least partially the Carboniferous. The youngest of them, forms the highest point in the park, is the early Pennsylvanian Pottsville Formation, a gray conglomerate, sandstone, silt containing can, and shale, and anthracite. The lower the education, the late Devonian and early Mississippian Huntley Mountain Formation, consisting of relatively soft grayish-red shale and olive-gray Sandstone is executed. Outside the park, the creek has cut down in the Devonian Catskill Formation, a reddish sandstone.

The Allegheny Plateau has a continental climate with occasional severe low winter temperatures and average daily temperature ranges from 20 F (11 C) in winter and 26 F (14 C) in summer. The mean annual Rainfall for the West Branch Pine Creek watershed is 40-42 inches (1016-1067 mm). January is the coldest month at Cherry Springs, the warmest July, and in The wettest June. The highest recorded temperature at the Park was 94 F (34 C) in 1966, and the record low was 28 F (33.3 C) 1963rd

Climate Data for Cherry Springs State Park

Month

January

February

Mar

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Average high F (C)

29

(-1.7)

34

(1.1)

42

(5.6)

56

(13.3)

67

(19.4)

75

(23.9)

78

(25.6)

77

(25)

69

(20.6)

58

(14.4)

45

(7.2)

33

(0.6)

Low average F (C)

13

(-10.6)

15

(-9.4)

23:00

(-5)

33

(0.6)

43

(6.1)

51

(10.6)

54

(12.2)

53

(11.7)

47

(8.3)

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 Weather Channel seventh March 2009

Ecology

Northern Saw-whet owls have been studied in the park.

Cherry Springs State Park and the surrounding Susquehannock State Forest recovered from the depredations of the timber era. However, the changing composition of forests, so that today more hardwoods, including Sugar maple and black cherry and less Eastern White Pine and Eastern Hemlock. The park also has apple trees from the orchard CCC. More than 400 bird species have been in Pennsylvania been found, including 186, the race in the state. Birds such as ospreys, hawks, owls, nightjars, and eagles have the Park and State Forest back and saw whet, owls were investigated in the park

Some animals had become extinct locally have also returned, or the area, including sea eagles of deer, elk, fisher (a Art Wiesel re-introduced), and otter. Although hunting is prohibited in the park in the nearby state forest, which once again allowed his title as a "Sports Paradise" in the 20th Century. Black bears are wild, white-tailed deer, ducks, Ruffed Grouse, rabbits, gray and red squirrels and wild turkeys. Other animals in the park and forest are Chipmunks, mink, raccoons, porcupines, Groundhogs, and the occasional Bobcat and frogs, beetles and moths.

A branch of the Hopper House Run rises within the park, and flows east and then north into West Branch Pine Creek. West Branch Road (or Branch Road) follows the valleys of the Creek and run by the Pennsylvania Route 44 East 10 miles (16 km to Galeton). PA 44 approximately follows the line between the Pine Creek watershed to the north and the Sinnemahoning Creek watershed in the south. East Fork Road leaves PA 44 in the park and follows the East Fork Sinnemahoning Creek valley southwest 12 miles (19 km) to the village Conrad. Both streams are approved trout streams for fishing, that is, they are stocked with trout in season.

Recreation

Dark Skies

The Trifid Nebula (M20) in Sagittarius, as seen from the park

Astronomers and stargazers appreciate Cherry Springs State Park for the darkness and clarity of the sky which made it "perhaps the last refuge of the best natural nocturnal to make the sky "in the eastern half of the United States. The Sky at Cherry Springs is a 2 was classified on the Bortle Dark-Sky Scale, which means it has almost no light pollution. Such "really dark, starry sky available to two thirds of the world, including 99 percent of people in the continental United States and Western Europe ". With optimal conditions are 10,000 stars with the naked eye on the park, only clouds appear like black holes in the sky and the Milky Way is so bright that it casts a distinctive shadow. In contrast, residents can see the great city, a few dozen stars in the best, and even those normally in rural areas 2,0003,000 can only see stars. The Milky Way can not be seen by most of the eastern United States, even if there's no moonlight to obscure it.

The quality of the night sky of the park and its growing popularity for stargazing are the result of several factors. Cherry Springs is located in the largely undeveloped 262 000 hectares (106,000 ha) Susquehannock State Forest and is atop a 2300 ft (701 m) above sea level. Because it is on the Allegheny Plateau, there are no mountains to block the sky and the Astronomy Field offers a 360-degree unobstructed view. The nearest city is Williamsport, 60 miles (97 km) to the southeast. Surrounding communities sit in deep valleys, then the meantime, ground screens much light they produce, the park has no artificial SkyGlow in each direction. Cherry Springs is normally brings fog-free and the width observe it in an excellent position around the galactic center of the Milky Way. The remote location also means there is little commercial air traffic interfere with astrophotography, while PA Route 44 still offers relatively easy access to the park from Interstate 80th

In addition to these natural factors is much more deliberate in the park in the sky bright and to do dark and help them in this way. Within the park, the former power lines were buried, so they do not obstruct views, all the light is shielded, and all white lights shall be red, converted the least effect on night vision and astrophotography. Light from passing vehicles is of earthen embankments with grass or Bushes and pine blocks covered, and the Astronomy Field gate has a special light-blocking tarp. The park's Dark Sky Fund has paid for many of these improvements since 1999.

Two of the three astronomy Park Dome prevent that the walls of the wind from the movement during the observation telescopes

Since the 2006 acquisition the Cherry Springs Airport, a new public sector has programming on the former airfield established. This field is located east of PA Route 44 and is Education programs or stargazing determined, but not for those who spend the night. Overnight observers and those with large telescopes used in astronomy Field southwest of the highway. Nocturnal visitors may only flashlights with red filters, and can only point to the ground. Astronomy has further restrictions on Field of lights, and parts of the park are light-free zones.

To maintain the dark skies at Cherry Springs State Park, Tri-County Rural Electric Company installed sun protection caps free on outdoor lighting at the local real estate. In 2001, the Pennsylvania General Assembly adopted the "Outdoor Lighting Control Act, which established both the Park as a "Dark Sky Preserve" and required minimum and shielded lighting in all new public facilities to reduce light pollution. A Design Guide for the Pennsylvania Wilds region, which includes the park, highlights the importance of maintaining dark skies. The DCNR spent $ 396,000 in June 2007, at mineral rights under to prevent 1980 acres (800 hectares) of the park and state forest to natural gas drilling and associated development since buying.

A wind farm is proposed on a property 13.7 miles (22.0 km) from the park. In 2008, Potter County adopted a regulation, the wind turbine will not light "with the state-designated Preserve Dark Skies at Cherry Springs State Park disturb ". That same year, the DCNR contract a study on the impact of wind farms, which closed the red warning lights on the turbines no effect on the darkness of the sky and would only be directly visible from the Astronomy Field under rare conditions. Others in the astronomy community in these conclusions Question asked and fear that new lights are on "several dozen wind turbines in the vicinity of the park" observations and astrophotography degrade. The study was also recommended that the DCNR lead shield and light in the near Denton Hill State Park, downhill skiing area in the sky even darker at Cherry Springs.

Astronomical observation

Telescopes of amateur astronomers expect dark

The staff at Cherry Springs State Park have no intention for them an attraction for Amateur astronomers now, astronomers came to them instead. In 1997 or 1998 Chip Harrison, the park supervisor, a man noticed looking through a telescope in the park at about 1.00. If Harrison asked why the man had it coming, "said the astronomer, he had noticed a black patch over isolated North Central Pennsylvania in the night satellite images. Cherry Springs State Park is in this patch, one of the best locations east of the Mississippi River to observe stars.

A growing number of astronomers began, Cherry Springs, come mostly in the 14-day period around the new moon dark sky, between the last quarter and the first quarter phases. The park is open all year and between 60 and 85 nights per year, ideal conditions, when can the apparent brightness of the faintest stars visible from 7.1 to 7.5 range. The park is Astronomy Field update been put to the astronomers. In 2005, a rotating 15-foot (4.6 m) slotted observatory dome, two 12-foot (3.7 m) clamshell domes and a 10-by-12 foot shed (3.0 to 3.7 m) were added to the sky, and a small amphitheater for programs. The four telescopes structures protection from wind and thermals. The next year concrete pads 4 and 6 feet (1.2 and 1.8 m) in diameter were randomly placed in the box and electric pedestals, each have six branches in the power telescopes and computers has. In 2009, Wi-Fi will be added Internet access to the astronomy field.

The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) in the constellation Canes Venatici, as in astronomy Field view

During a typical clear night can be 50-100 observers, each year the park hosts have two major parties, both of which attract more than one star one hundred astronomers for several nights. The Black Forest Star Party, which sponsored by the Central Pennsylvania State College observers held every autumn since 1999. The Cherry Springs Star Party, sponsored by the Astronomical Society of Harrisburg, was in June of each year since 2005. There is also free public programs at the amphitheater on the former site of the airport, some of which are part of the National Public Observatory Stars-n-Parks program. Meteor showers will win a lot, and the Aurora Borealis can be seen from the park. A stargazing business, "Crystal Spheres", was established and stars and music programs presented with a one-hour concert followed by an hour stargazing. Such "green tourism" has a positive economic impact for the region.

Awards and Recognition Press to Cherry Springs and get his staff. Thom Bemus, who initiated and coordinates the Stars-n-Parks program was said DCNR 2002 Volunteer of the Year. "In 2007, The park's Dark Sky programming and staff received the Environmental Education Excellence in Programming Award from the Pennsylvania Recreation and Parks Society. Operations Manager Chip Harrison and his wife Maxine, who heads the dark sky funds received in 2008 an award from the Pennsylvania Outdoor Lighting Council for the "unwavering And actively promote adherence to the principles of responsible outdoor lighting at Cherry Springs State Park. The DCNR has called Cherry Springs one of the "Must-See Twenty Pennsylvania State Parks ", especially for those under the" darkest night sky on the east coast. "Cherry Springs State Park was in the national press 2003 featured in USA Today to get it named one of "10 Great Places, a few stars in your eyes," in 2006 featured in National Geographic Adventure it in "Pennsylvania: The Wild, Wild East", and in the The New York Times in 2007. All this was before there was an International Dark Sky Park by the International Dark-Sky Association in 2008 named.

Woodsmen's Show

A chain saw event at the Woodsmen's Show

The Woodsmen's Show draws thousands of visitors to Cherry Springs State Park on the first weekend in August. It was decided that each year since 1952, and was sponsored by the Galeton Rotary Club since 1987. In 2008, events at the three-day fair include deforestation, cross-cutting issues, log rolling, ax throwing, horse pulls, Spring Board Chop, chop the Standing Block and chainsaw competitions and demonstrations. The 2008 show also featured historical reconstructions of life in a logging camp, musical performances, and vendors at Sales of food, crafts and equipment related to the timber industry.

The show and its events, the lumbering Potter County history celebration have changed over time. In the early years, up to three working sawmills were set only for the carnival, and there was an associated Woodsmen Ball on Saturday evening, ended after the carnival. The Woodsmen's all had their first female competitors in 1979. Some events have been tried and dismissed, in 1987 one-hour seminars on topics such as "Outdoor Adventures on mules," and the first "Woodsmen's Carnival Queen" were introduced, and 1993 there was Tractor Pulling with lawn tractors. In 1990 the name was changed from the "Woodsmen's Carnival" is changing the "Woodsmen's Show," a third day was added, and an ecumenical service was held Sunday morning in the large picnic pavilion. Next year the show was part of the STIHL Timbersports Series and some of the competition was broadcast to ESPN. While no longer part of the STIHL series competed in 2008 many of the same athletes at the fair.

Participation 4000 was the first year, rising to 12,000 three years later in 1955, then to 33,000 in 1962, a peak with almost as many in 1965 (32,000) and 1981 (30,000). In 1983, 20,000 visitors came to the fair, were 15,000 in 1985, and the beginning of the 21st Century, was present around 14,000. Admission is free and cash prizes are awarded in the competitions. Proceeds from the show at the Penn-York Club woodcutter went to the wood industry promotion and support of the Pennsylvania Lumber Museum. The Galeton Rotary Club has the means used to improve the standard of living in and around Galeton, including college scholarships, a new roof for the community building, support for the local public library and Clean-up and maintenance of the city center.

Camping, picnicking, and hiking trails

The camping in a park, with Picnic tables

The park has 30 camping sites, each for a tent or a caravan (RV) up to 30 feet (9.1 m) long. The pages all have a fire ring, lantern hanger and a picnic table and are classified as rustic, because they have no running water. The camp, south-east of Pennsylvania Route 44, is open from April to December and does not accept reservations. The park has two modern latrines, one in the campground and the other in astronomy Field. There is also a holding tank dump station for campers. Although the Astronomy Field is not an official campsite, overnight observer can set up tents and vehicles in which to camp there. In addition to the tables, chairs and a small pavilion in the camping area, is the main picnic area at Cherry Springs in the south west side Route 44, in and around the major historical, CCC built pavilion. The area of the pavilion has many picnic tables located in an old apple orchard and a large stand of White Pine and Spruce.

Cherry Springs State Park is located at the southern end of a 15-mile (24 km) long, single-track mountain bike trail that starts at Denton Hill State Park and runs through Patterson State Park in 2005 was snowmobile trailhead at Cherry Springs on the southern end of the park moved to the area of astronomy avoided. The snowmobile trail is one of the many hiking trails for cross country skiing, backpacking, hiking and all-terrain vehicle and horseback riding in the surrounding Susquehannock State Forest. The 85-mile (137 km) Susquehannock long trail system passes near the park and loops around him. South of the park, the trail leads through the Hammersley Wild Area, which at 30,253 acres (12,243 ha) without roads, the second largest wild area in Pennsylvania.

State parks in the vicinity

Cherry Springs State Park is located on Pennsylvania Route 44 in West Branch Township, 10 miles (16 km) south-west of Galeton. The following state parks are within 30 miles (48 km) from Cherry Springs State Park:

Bucktail State Park Natural Area (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 County)

Leonard Harrison State Park (Tioga County)

Lyman Run State Park (Potter County)

Ole Bull State Park (Potter County)

Patterson State Park (Potter County)

Prouty Place State Park (Potter County)

Sinnemahoning State Park (Potter and Cameron Counties)

Sizerville State Park (Potter and Cameron Counties)

View of the park, from left to right: Astronomy Bulletin Board, CCC-built picnic pavilion, pump house, Astronomy Field, Sky Shed and three astronomical observation domes, information view, modern restrooms, an amphitheater, and CCC-built replica of the Cherry Springs Tavern (log cabin in Pennsylvania Route 44).

Notes

a. ^ In April 2009, the official website for Cherry Springs State Park still lists the area of 48 acres, (19 ha), as well as Forrey 1984 History of Pennsylvania state parks. This was the size the park in front of the Cherry Springs Airport was closed and much of his land was transferred to the park. If the airport was built 40 acres (16 hectares), and it had the size to 59 acres (24 hectares) by 1981 further expanded. The airport land was by the Bureau of Forestry, part of the property along with the DCNR Bureau of State Parks.

b. ^ Although the park was along the 6.5-mile (10.5 km) Cherry Springs Drive, the precise end points of the drive are not clear. Two perspectives are southeast of the park at the Pennsylvania Route 44: It is 3.1 miles (5.0 km) from the park to the water tank Hollow Vista (which looks to the north), and 1.8 miles (2.9 km) from the park to Cherry Springs Vista (which looks South). The Cherry Springs Fire Tower is 1.9 miles (3.1 km) south of the park, south of Cherry Springs Vista. Coudersport is 15 miles (24 km) northwest of the park along Route 44 and the Cherry Springs "Class B" public campground was about11 miles (18 km) from Coudersport, or about 4 miles (6.4 km) from the current park. From 2009, this area is part of the state forest, but does not have any parks. The United States Geological Survey topographic map (Ayers Hill quadrant) shows indeed a "Little Cherry Springs Park is located in this area. Patterson State Park a short distance northwest of the site of the Little Cherry Springs Park, and it is 6.5 miles (10.5 km) along PA 44 of Patterson, the Cherry Springs Vista.

References

^ AB "Cherry Springs State Park. Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 30th August 1990. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1171676. From 10 February 2008.

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^ From "monthly averages for Cherry Springs State Park. The Weather Channel Interactive, Inc. http://www.weather.com/outlook/recreation/outdoors/wxclimatology/monthly/PASPCS:13. From 7 March 2009.

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Abcd ^ Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Bureau of Planning and Research, Geographic Information Division. 2007 General Highway Map Potter County Pennsylvania [Map], 1:65,000. Retrieved on 27 July 2007. Note: shows Cherry Springs State Park

^ "PFBC County Guide". Searchable interactive map. Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. http://pfbc.state.pa.us/CountyGuide/County_Guide.htm. From 10 March 2009.

^ Abcde Clanton & Associates (27 May 2008). "Cherry Springs State Park: Light Pollution Analysis and Recommendations ". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/info/wind/documents/cherry-springs-state-park-light-pollution- analysis-05-29-08.pdf. From March 21, 2009.

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^ Abc Lamey, Jessica (June 29, 2008). "" Awesome ": Stargazers revel in Cherry Springs Dark Skies". Williamsport Sun-Gazette: pp. E1, E3. http://www.sungazette.com/page/content.detail/id/512360.html?nav=5013. From 23 March 2009.

^ AB Beatty, Kelly (27 June 2008). "Cherry Springs Dark Sky acquire status. Sky and Telescope. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/21914474.html. From 27 March 2009.

^ "A law Providing for the management of outdoor night lighting (House Bill No. 300, Session 2001). The General Assembly of Pennsylvania. 13 November 2001. Http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public / btCheck.cfm? txtType = PDF & sessYr = 2001 & sessInd = 0 & & billTyp billBody = H = B & billNbr = 0300 & pn = 2860th From 23 March 2009.

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^ "Potter County Wind Energy Ordinance. "Potter County, Pennsylvania. 2008th http://pottercountypa.net/wind/index.html. Retrieved 29 March 2009.

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^ "Cherry Springs State Park team of husband-wife receives award". Williamsport Sun-Gazette. 21st September 2008. http://www.sungazette.com/page/content.detail/id/515859.html. From 29 March 2009.

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