Harrison Hills Park

Harrison Hills Park

Harrison Hills Park is a 500-acre county park in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a part of the county's 12,000-acre network of nine distinct parks.

It is sited 20 miles northeast of downtown Pittsburgh in Harrison Township. The park features an overlook of the Allegheny River and offers walking, hiking, and bridle trails. The eastern trailhead of the 35 mile Rachel Carson Trail is just outside the park's entrance. [ cite web | url = http://www.rachelcarsontrails.org/rct | title = Rachel Carson Trail | work = Rachel Carson Trails Conservancy | accessdate = 2007-10-28 ]

External links

* [http://www.county.allegheny.pa.us/parks/hhfac.aspx Harrison Hills Park website]

References

Further reading

*cite book | author=Smith, Helene and George Swetnam | title=A Guidebook to Historic Western Pennsylvania | location=Pittsburgh | publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press | year=1991 | id=0-8229-5424-9


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