State park · Warrington Township, York County
Gifford Pinchot State Park
A lake named for the conservationist governor is the centerpiece here, popular with sailors, paddlers and anglers, with a swimming beach, cabins and a lakeside campground.
What you will find
- Hiking trails
- Biking
- Horseback riding
- Cross-country skiing
- Camping
- Cabins or shelters
- Swimming
- Beach
- Boat launch
- Canoe and kayak launch
- Fishing
- Picnic areas
- Wildlife and bird watching
Hunting is permitted here in season. Check the state hunting calendar and wear blaze orange in fall and winter.
Make a day of it
Nearby
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Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts
Hands-on science galleries, a giant-screen cinema and a performing-arts theater under one roof in downtown Harrisburg.
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Pennsylvania State Capitol
A grand 1906 capitol under a dome modeled on St. Peter's in Rome, its interior rich with Moravian tile floors, murals, stained glass and marble, shown on guided tours.
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State Museum of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's story from dinosaurs to the industrial age, told beside the Capitol, with Peter Rothermel's enormous painting of Pickett's Charge and a planetarium.
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Susquehanna Art Museum
Harrisburg's art museum, with changing exhibitions of regional and contemporary art in Midtown, a few blocks from the river.
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National Civil War Museum
Set in Reservoir Park, this museum tells the whole story of the Civil War, from its causes to its aftermath, through artifacts, letters and dioramas that give both Union and Confederate perspectives.
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Susquehanna Riverlands State Park
Hikers on the blue-blazed Mason-Dixon Trail climb to rocky lookouts above the Susquehanna in this riverside woodland at the mouth of Codorus Creek.
