Greenwood Furnace State Park

Another beautiful Pennsylvania state park packed with history. Greenwood Furnace has a lot to offer families including a really nice beach with a small lake swimming area (gets pretty busy on the weekends). Greenwood Furnace also offers a beautiful Park Headquarters that has some neat CCC displays as well as animal info, a gift shop etc.
The park also offers a small loop campground that boasts both tent and RV campsites.
Overall a cool park to take the family on a day or weekend trip.

Greenwood Furnace is a 423 acre State Park in Huntington County, about 20 minutes south of State College, PA. It features fishing, hunting, camping, a 6 acre lake, miles of hiking trails and some historic iron working buildings. It was voted one of PA’s top 20 must-​see-​parks a few years back and we finally made the journey up to visit. We rented a non-​electric camping site (equipped with lantern holder, picnic table and ample shade) for 27/​per night.
We had a blast with the kids going fishing, visiting the blacksmith shop, climbling on the old dis-​used iron furnaces, looking for frogs, worms, crayfish, etc. The best part is the campfire, and cooking all our food (hashbrowns, hotdogs, eggs, smores) There is a mountain fed lake that has some (cool) swimming as well as a beach and a nearby playground. Quite time is between 9pm & 8am.
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