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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Raccoon Creek State Park

Last Friday my brother and I had a whole day to kill in the Pittsburgh area, and fortunately we stumbled upon Raccoon Creek State Park, a park neither of us had heard of before.  Boy were we glad we found it.  A 7,572-acre park that started as a Recreational Demonstration Area operated by the National Park Service in the 1930s and improved upon by the Civilian Conservation Corps, the park's gem is the 101-acre Raccoon Lake, featured here in these images.





6 comments:

Anonymous said...

These pics were beautiful. I was concerned regarding your absence, and glad to know you are alright. Your blog about your mother was touching.

Ruby

Dr. K said...

I hope this park was not damaged by the storm.

packrat said...

Much appreciated, Ruby.

packrat said...

I had the very same thought, Dr. K.

Scott said...

Nice images of Raccoon Creek, Packrat. I occasionally used to take students to the park to do ecological studies when I was a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh. I believe that portions of the park are located on old coal surface mines--in fact, I think the lake is mostly on old mined land.

packrat said...

You're right about the mines, Scott. A waiter at a restaurant told us that the lake has been drained a few times because of contamination from the mines, but we weren't sure how accurate that was because fishing is permitted in the lake.

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