Ridley Creek State Park

Ridley Creek State Park

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Location: 16 miles from Philadelphia, off PA 3.
Facilities: Group tent camp, picnic areas, picnic pavilions, mobile snack bar, fishing pier (é), hiking trails (12 miles), bridle trails (5 miles), paved multi-use trail (5 miles), sledding slope, playfields, playgrounds, gardens.
Activities: Camping, fishing, hiking, bicycling, horseback riding, cross-country skiing, sledding, tobogganing, nature and historical programs.
Special Features: Park includes Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation, a working farm and living museum that depicts life on a Delaware County Quaker farm prior to the American Revolution. Visitors can observe and participate in the making of farm tools, clothing, furniture, and colonial meals. Other colonial chores demonstrated include spinning, crop harvesting, butter churning, salting and smoking of meat, and food preservation.
Address: 1023 Sycamore Mills Rd
Media, PA 19063
Phone: 610-892-3900;
Web: www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/parks/ridleycreek.aspx
Size: 2,607 acres.

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