State park · Hanover Township, Washington County
Hillman State Park
Rolling former strip-mine land reclaimed as woods and fields, managed largely for hunting but laced with trails used by hikers, horseback riders and mountain bikers.
What you will find
- Hiking trails
- Mountain biking
- Horseback riding
- Fishing
- 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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Raccoon Creek State Park
Spring wildflowers carpet the park's renowned Wildflower Reserve, Raccoon Lake has a beach and boating, and a short trail leads to the old Frankfort Mineral Springs.
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Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village
A rock overhang holding some of the oldest evidence of people in North America, with a re-created 16th-century Indian village and a 19th-century rural village.
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Pittsburgh Botanic Garden
Former coal-mining land west of the city, being healed into a botanic garden of woodland walks, display gardens and a lotus pond fed by treated mine water.
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Montour Trail
Arcing through the countryside west and south of Pittsburgh, a long crushed-stone rail trail with tall trestles, old railroad tunnels and a link toward the Great Allegheny Passage.
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Old Economy Village
The final home of the Harmony Society, a celibate Christian community, with their 1820s brick and frame buildings, craft workshops and formal garden.
