Harrison Hills Park

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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.^[1]

[edit] External links

• Harrison Hills Park website

[edit] References

[edit] Further reading

• Smith, Helene and George Swetnam (1991). A Guidebook to Historic Western Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 0-8229-5424-9. 

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