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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 113. Chapters: Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, List of Alabama state parks, List of Alaska state parks, List of Arizona state parks, List of Arkansas state parks, List of California state parks, List of Colorado state parks, List of Connecticut state parks, List of Delaware state parks, List of Florida state parks, List of Georgia state parks, List of Hawaii state parks, List of Idaho state parks, List of Indiana state parks, List of Iowa state parks, List of Kansas state parks, List of Kentucky state parks, List of Louisiana state parks, List of Maine state parks, List of Maryland state parks, List of Massachusetts state parks, List of Michigan state parks, List of Minnesota state parks, List of Mississippi state parks, List of Missouri state parks, List of Montana state parks, List of Nebraska state parks, List of Nevada state parks, List of New Hampshire state parks, List of New Jersey state parks, List of New Mexico state parks, List of New York state parks, List of North Carolina state parks, List of North Dakota state parks, List of Ohio state parks, List of Oklahoma state parks, List of Oregon state parks, List of Pennsylvania state parks, List of Rhode Island state parks, List of South Carolina state parks, List of South Dakota state parks, List of Tennessee state parks, List of Texas state parks, List of U.S. state parks, List of Vermont state parks, List of Virginia state parks, List of Washington state parks, List of West Virginia state parks, List of Wisconsin state parks, List of Wyoming state parks, Utah State Parks. Excerpt: There are 120 state parks in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, as of 2012. The Pennsylvania Bureau of State Parks, a division of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), is the governing body for all these parks, and directly operates 112 of them. The remaining eight are operated in cooperation with other public and private organizations. The first Pennsylvania state park, at Valley Forge, opened in 1893 and was given to the National Park Service (NPS) for America's bicentennial in 1976. There are a total of eighteen former Pennsylvania state parks: four former parks have been transferred to the NPS, five to the Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission, two to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, one to both the Corps and the Pennsylvania Game Commission, five to the Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry, and one has ceased to exist. Nine current and two former state parks have had major name changes or have been known under alternate names. The list gives an overview of Pennsylvania state parks and a brief history of their development since the first park opened in 1893. State parks range in size from 3 acres (1.2 ha) to 21,122 acres (8,548 ha), with nearly one percent (0.96%) of Pennsylvania's land as state park land. According to Dan Cupper (1993), "Pennsylvania is the thirty-third largest state, but only Alaska and California have more park land." There are state parks in 61 of Pennsylvania's 67 counties, which nearly reaches Pennsylvania's goal of having a state park within 25 miles (40 km) of every resident in the Commonwealth. Ten of the 120 parks do not have "State Park" in their name. Three are "Conservation Areas" Boyd Big Tree Preserve, Joseph E. Ibberson, and Varden; four are "Environmental Education Centers" Jacobsburg, Jennings, Kings Gap (also a "Training Center") and Nolde Forest; White Clay Creek is a "Preserve"; Norristown is a "Farm Park"; and Big Spring is a "State Forest Picnic Area." Seven parks are undeveloped with no
