Park and Related Park Programs

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Welcome to Centre Region Parks and Recreation (CRPR) and your local parks pages!

CRPR provides parks maintenance services to the five municipalities of the Borough of State College and the Townships of College, Ferguson, Harris, and Patton. The municipalities own several neighborhood and community parks, and the Agency provides maintenance services such as mowing, weeding, flower bed care, tree care, sports field maintenance including dragging and lining, aerating and overseeding, and more.

Here is a little bit about the local parks and the number of park acreage available in the area.  For a list of all Local Parks, click for our Find Your Park map!

Parkland in Acres
(updated 5/9/22; based on Centre County GIS Deeded Acreage listed for each park)

Owner / LeaseeState College BoroughCollege TownshipFerguson TownshipHarris TownshipPatton TownshipTotals
Municipal Parkland (Self-Maintain).92 acres42.46 acres71.63 acres**6.73 acres****589.53 acres*****711.27 acres

Municipal Parkland (CRPR Maintains)

120.62 acres119.90 acres

119.64 acres***

62.47 acres154.28 acres******576.91 acres
COG/Authority (owns/leases)*3.32 acres131.10 acres100 acres20.65 acres4.0 acres259.07 acres
Total Acreage124.86 acres293.46 acres291.27 acres89.95 acres747.81 acres1,547.25 acres
Total Maintained by CRPR123.94 acres251.00 acres219.64 acres83.12 acres158.28 acres

835.98 acres

The Centre Region Parks System currently includes 56 regional facilities and parks with 835.98 acres which are currently maintained by Centre Region Parks and Recreation through our regional parks and cooperative recreation services agreement with the local municipalities.  This number was recently updated to reflect the work the Agency and the municipalities do within their own parks; for example, the .61 acre stormwater basin within Autumnwood Park is completely managed by Ferguson Township.  Additionally, the acreage managed was reduced in 2021 when the Agency stopped leasing land from the State College Area School District at Spring Creek Elementary School, Ferguson Township Elementary School, and Radio Park Elementary School. 

The asterisks below also note some details about how the parkland was calculated:
*COG/Authority owns/leases the following lands:  William L. Welch L. Welch Community Pool (leases from SCASD) Park Forest Community Pool (owns), Oak Hall Regional Park (leases from COG), Millbrook Marsh Nature Center (leases from PSU), Whitehall Road Regional Park (leases from COG/Ferguson Township), and the John Hess Softball Complex (leases from COG).  The Authority ended leases for SCASD Radio Park Elementary Ballfields (4 acres), SCASD Ferguson Elementary Ballfields (3 acres), and SCASD Spring Creek Elemntary Ballfield (formerly Houserville Elementary, 1.5 acres) in mid-April 2021.
**Includes the approximation of the undeveloped portion of Cecil Irvin Park, the meadows and pastures of Tudek Park, and the stormwater basins at Autumnwood Park and Haymarket Park, which are all managed by Ferguson Township.
***Includes the approximation for the portion of Cecil Irvin Park and Tudek Park that the Agency maintains.
****Does not include the 10.71 acres of the future Tussey Pond Park land which remains dormant at this time.  A master plan was adopted by Harris Township but a construction timeline is not yet available.  If this acreage were to be added to the table, it would be added to the Municipal Parkland (Self-Maintain) category.
*****Includes the approximation of the undeveloped portion of Gray's Woods Park (39.46 acres), Patton Woods Natural Recreation Area which is considered passive parkland (62.70 acres), and the Haugh Tract (465.97 acres), for which Patton Township has oversight.  This figure also captures the approximated acres within Bernel Road Park that are not developed at this time (farmed).
******Includes only the developed areas of Gray's Woods Park (4 acres) and only the approximated acres that have been developed within Bernel Road Park that the Agency maintains.

In this section you will find several resources about the region’s parks including park-related programs, an interactive parks map with amenities and addresses, information about CRPR’s Community Gardens Program, the Tudek Dog Park, CRPR's Parks Partners Program, and more!

Use the menu to the left to navigate to the park map or other areas of interest.