North Park (Pittsburgh)

North Park
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Type	Municipal
Location	Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°35′38″N 79°59′49″W / 40.5939°N 79.99690°W / 40.5939; -79.99690
Area	3,075-acre (12 km2)
Created	1931

North Park is a 3,075-acre (12 km²) county park that is located in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the largest in the county's 12,000-acre (49 km²) network of nine distinct parks.

Completed in 1931, North Park is sited 15 miles (24 km) northeast of downtown Pittsburgh in Hampton, McCandless, and Pine Townships. The park features the largest man-made body of water in the county, over 75 acres (300,000 m²), bordered by four miles of woodlands.

Its swimming pool was one of the largest in the United States when it opened on July 5, 1937. It holds 2,225,000 gallons of water (compared to 20–30,000 gallons in a modern city swimming pool) and has enough room for 5,000 people to swim. The pool is 50m x 105m.^{[citation needed]}

The park also offers a golf course, a large ice skating rink that was completed in February 1961, a movie theater, picnic groves, tennis courts, basketball courts, kayak rentals, a treetop obstacle course with zipline, and several miles of trails for walking, hiking, bike riding, and mountain biking, including trails for the visually impaired, known as the "Braille Trail."^[1] The Rachel Carson Trail runs through North Park, as well. North Park is also notable for their boathouse restaurant called "Over the Bar", which has a bicycle theme.

The Latodami Nature Center offers environmental education programs for school groups, scouts, and other private and public groups.^[2]

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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to North Park, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

• North Park website
• Latodami Nature Center