places where you won't be able to wipe the wag off your dog's tail - St. Peters PA
The Park
Three segments of these public lands, totaling 2,150 acres, lie in northwest Chester County. The most accessible - and scenic - of the three is at Saint Peters. Once known as the Falls of French Creek and a famous local tourist destination, Saint Peters was named for the town church when the post office moved away.
The Walks
The Horse-Shoe Trail cuts through the Saint Peters and Pine Swamp Tracts. The Saint Peters walk is heavily wooded; the Pine Swamp walk leads through a scruffy meadow on old access roads through light woods at the edge of fields. There are many other short interconnecting trails at Saint Peters, crossing over small streams and meandering down an abandoned rail line.
Where The Paw Meets The Earth: Natural surface trails with some very rocky stretches
Workout For Your Dog - You’ll find some hills at Saint Peters to set your dog to panting
Swimming - French Creek rushes downhill through the property, pooling into an ideal swimming pond just south of the parking lot
Restrictions On Dogs - None
Something Extra
Forty million years ago an igneous explosion occurred underground here and cooled very quickly leaving behind a particularly fine granite rock. Tourists and students of geology alike made the pilgrimage to the Falls of French Creek to study the rock formations. Granite quarries mined the rock and granite from Saint Peters once received an award at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago as “a fine-grained polished cube, a good building and ornamental stone.” The quarries closed in the 1960s and many pits can still be seen. Today the giant boulders in French Creek are ideal for your dog to scramble on - or just lie in the sun.
Phone - None
Website - None
Admission Fee - None
Directions - Saint Peters, Chester County; on Saint Peters Road, off Route 23 (Ridge Road). It is behind the buildings on the left, at the northern edge of town. In Pine Swamp there is a small, unmarked parking lot on Harmonyville Road, east of Route 345 (Pine Swamp Road).
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