To Franklin, 30 Mi. To I-80 & Erie 1200 ENLARGEMENT OF LAKEVIEW AREA ENLARGEMENT OF PLEASANT VALLEY 1200 MORAINE STATE PARK 1200 1200 1300 To FIVE POINTS Jacksville Group Tenting LAKE Dickey Big 1200 Road Tamarack Lake 1200 1200 ARTHUR 173 1200 North Hogue 1300 1400 lley Tra 1200 (Kettle Hole) Run 1200 a il V N t #3 HISTORICAL SITE P an Esker 1200 l e as CRESCENT BAY Old Stone House 1300 Run WEST 1200 Slippery Rock 1200 LIBERTY Jennings Environmental Bait University of PA Shore Road 5 Points Tr. BEAR Education Center Office Weeks RUN Liberty Road 1300 1300 ENLARGEMENT OF McDANELS AREA #1 Turk Road 1200 1300 #4 Bike 3 Drive Covert #5 1300 Butterfly Moore Shoal Tr. 1400 #2 1300 1200 Trail Hill 1400 Road 79 LAKE Mt. Union Top Boat 1400 Tr. Tours/ ARTHUR Road Gift 1200 LAKEVIEW BEACH & DAY USE Shop Run 528 Road Extension Tr. #7 Staff Sunken Garden 1300 Road Road Barber Point Hogue Rd. #6 1300 Zion 1300 Road Roher 1400 8 1400 Cooper Road Church Road 1300 Cornelius Road 1500 Lindey 1400 Rd. Road Muddy Ridge Liberty 1400 West 1300 1300 1400 1400 1400 Camelot Road Road 1400 Curry Mt. Creek BUTLER COUNTY BUTLER Union Barkley LAWRENCE COUNTY LAWRENCE 1300 Muddy 1200 1400 1500 1400 138 1300 Bicycle Rental Alexander Road 1400 Trail Glacier Ridge 1400 North 1400 Park Road Gate 19 Trailhead Road Road Road Burton 1500 1500 1300 Shore Duck Pond To Coopers Drive Mt. Bike Dam 1300 1200 2 New Castle, Lake Mt. Bike Trail Head FIVE 10 Mi. Creek 1300 Trail Head POINTS Mine 1200 Muddy Creek West See Enlargement Ridge Trail Country Treatment Ridge Glacier Exhibit 1200 1200 of McDANELS Link 1 Trail Tr. Road North Country Mt. Bike Road Club Glacier Trail Head 1400 1500 Slippery Creek 1400 1300 Country 422 1200 DAVIS 1400 5 Points Tr. WATTS BAY MARINA Davis Hollow HOLLOW 1300 North Duck Cabin MARINA 1400 3 Muddy 1200 West Point 4 1200 Shore Drive Rock Bound North North Exit 99 Only Shoal 1200 Upper 1400 Dam 1300 528 1300 1400 Johnson N. Shore See Enlargement Davis Hollow 1400 8 1200 Ramps of LAKEVIEW 1300 Public Launch Chestnut 1300 Barber Point FRANK Road Burnside Road 5 Creek Worth 6 Point Trout McCONNELLS 1300 Ridge Cove 1300 1400 MILL STATE LAKE Nealeys 528 Enter PARK Point PRESTON Not Baird Point ARTHUR Rd. 1400 Kildoo Moraine Outdoor GAME 1300 19 Do Center PROPAGATION 1300 See Enlargement of Lost PLEASANT VALLEY Cove Church Swamp Run AREA Enter Swamp Road BEAR 1200 d 1300 a 1200 Do CRESCENT BAY Trail RUN Not o Road 1400 R 1400 Swamp W y g 1300 g Run d Shannon eston CONSERVATION To Butler, 9 Mi. o o Porters Trailhead h Park 1500 a Hill 1300 Cove Road M Top Christley Run UNIONVILLE Tr. Road 1300 1300 Cheeseman Road 1300 Park Office Disc Golf Badger Run 1200 1300 1200 Sunken Tr. AREA Fishing Pier 528 Playground Road Big Garden West Gate closed Beaver Blue Symbols Marina 1300 McCall Hill Road in the winter Cove Historic Mean Accessible Big Wind Surfing Area Oil Exhibit 1200 Rd. Run Road Public Phone Road Club Isle Country 1300 Boat Launch & Mooring 1200 1400 Restrooms Valley Wyggeston 1200 Muskrat Minteer Boat Rental 79 422 Cove Rd. Amphitheater Run 1400 Non-motorized 1400 TRAIL INFORMATION Picnic Area Boat Launch Only 1400 1300 Road Election Boat Fuel Pleasant Hiking Trail Picnic Pavilion Pfeifer Road Pfeifer PORTERSVILLE Tr. Environmental Classroom 1400 Mountain Biking Sledding Area Magee 488 State Park Organized Group Tenting Region #2 Cross-country Skiing Ice Skating Area Road and Forestry Office Recommended Cabin Area Road Food Concession Exit 96 Waterfowl Grindel Road Snowmobiling Backpacking Shelter 1/2 0 1 2 KILOMETERS Observation Park Beach Big Area 1300 Horseback Riding Showerhouse/ Vending Machines Road House Restrooms 1/2 0 1/2 1 MILE Run North Country Trail Scenic View 488 1200 Rd. 1400 Joint Use Road: Multi-use Trail: Hiking & Auto/Snowmobile No Fishing 19 1300 (as indicated) 1 Unpaved Road State Park No Hunting 1300 Paved Bicycle Trail with 1200 Unionville Gate 1300 Levis 422 Mile Markers State Park Hunting 1400 Road 1300 Parking Trail of Geology 1300 Archery Hunting Only 1200 To Pittsburgh & To Evans City To Butler, Marker 1300 CONTOURS ARE ON 100 FT. INTERVALS Rev. 3/22/12 PA Turnpike & I-79 8 Mi. RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES HISTORY Spend the Day www.visitPAparks.com or call toll-free available to borrow Monday through Legacy of the Land who altered the landscape and depleted the acquainted many with the botanical 888-PA-PARKS, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday Saturday when there is adequate snow cover. resources through lumbering, agriculture treasures he encountered. PICNICKING: Two picnic areas provide to Saturday, for state park information and Call ahead for snow conditions. The Paleo-Indian People were the first and hunting. Once the resources above the Dr. Jennings first discovered the tables and restrooms. The Woodland Picnic reservations. humans in the area. Arriving about 15,000 ground were exhausted, a new generation prairie in 1905. Thanks to a generous Area is behind the center office at the Enjoy the Winter years ago, these nomadic hunters followed looked below the surface. Coal mining donation from the Butler Garden Club, beginning of the Woodland Trails System. the retreating face of the glacier in search of became a booming industry during this era. he initiated the purchase and protection The Prairie Picnic Pavilion Area overlooks CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING: All wooly mammoths and giant ground sloths. While mining provided a needed source of of the area by the Western Pennsylvania the relict prairie. Its pavilion seats 50 people trails north of PA 528 (prairie side) are The constant pursuit of these giant animals energy, techniques of that day left significant Conservancy, a private conservation group. and may be reserved up to 11 months in recommended for cross-country skiing. is believed to have helped force the animals scars on the land. The Conservancy was instrumental in advance for a fee. If unreserved, the picnic to extinction. Little is known of the early At Jennings today, it is hard to see the establishing environmental education at pavilion is free on a first-come, first- SNOWSHOEING: Snowshoeing is cultures that inhabited the area after the scars from previous uses of the land. As Jennings. served basis. Make online reservations at: popular at Jennings. Snowshoes are Paleo-Indian People. educators, the Jennings staff strives to help By teaching others to appreciate By the end of the 16th century, the Seneca people understand that we continue to be Pennsylvania’s unique natural areas, Dr. HIKING: 5 MILES OF TRAILS Nation of the Iroquois Confederation a product of our environment and need to Jennings helped to ensure that this and controlled the area. Dependent on make informed decisions concerning the other special areas would be preserved for Jennings offers many hiking opportunities different types of habitat, including an area WOODWHISPER TRAIL: 0.16 mile, agriculture, the Seneca used fire to open immediate and long-term effects of our future generations. Almost a century later, that traverse varying terrain and diverse recently influenced by beaver. It can be easiest hiking areas to plant crops, which may have helped actions. The decisions we make today about we continue to teach others in this tradition. habitats. Visitors may walk through over accessed from Deer Trail or Massasauga Popular with people with strollers, this sustain prairie openings. how to use the land will leave our legacy for 300 acres of forest and prairie. The trail Trail. Unique to this trail are several man- paved, flat loop travels through an upland, Trade and travel were an important part of future generations. Foltz School system is designed as a series of loops, with made pits. It is believed that the pits were mixed hardwood forest. American Indian culture. The Venango Trail trail signs at every intersection, making excavated in the 19th century for ore bearing Otto Emery Jennings This one room, township school was built NORTH COUNTRY NATIONAL lies beneath PA 528, a major road dividing it possible to choose a variety of hiking clay, which was taken to local iron furnaces. in 1880, on the site of a former log school. SCENIC TRAIL: This national scenic the park. The trail connected Pittsburgh experiences. Trails are designed for foot The center is named in honor of one of After 83 years of classes, the school closed OLD ELM TRAIL: 0.25 mile, easiest trail passes through Jennings and utilizes to Franklin and was traveled by a number traffic only. Bicycles and motorized vehicles Pennsylvania’s most renowned botanists, in 1963. Foltz school was one of the last hiking a number of the woodland trails, including of historic figures like Tecumseh, George are prohibited. Pets are permitted, but must Dr. Otto Emery Jennings. It is said that Dr. five public, one room schools to close in Starting west of the center office and Glacier Ridge, Ridge and Black Cherry. This Washington and Lafayette. remain on a leash at all times. Some trails Jennings explored western Pennsylvania Pennsylvania. The building is currently looping back to it, this trail passes through blue-blazed trail system links North Dakota The 1800s brought an influx of settlers are appropriate for cross-country skiing. with the “energy of a pioneer” and being restored. an area of the park once dominated by large to New York, traveling through seven states Tell us about your hike at: elm trees. Most succumbed to Dutch elm for a distance of over 3,200 miles.