Gifford Pinchot State Park
Gifford Pinchot State Park is a 2,338-acre (946 ha) Pennsylvania state park in northern York County, Pennsylvania, in the United States.
A trail in Gifford Pinchot State Park
Sailboats on the lake.
The Environmental Learning Center.
Kayaking is popular on the lake and kayaks can be rented on-site.
Gifford Pinchot was an American forester and politician. He served as the fourth chief of the U.S. Division of Forestry, as the first head of the United States Forest Service, and as the 28th governor of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Republican Party for most of his life, though he joined the Progressive Party for a brief period.
Gifford Pinchot portrait by Pirie MacDonald, 1909
Portrait of Gifford Pinchot by Benjamin Johnston, c. 1901
Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot on the steamer Mississippi, 1907
Theodore Roosevelt endorses Pinchot, running for U.S. Senate on Progressive ticket in Pennsylvania 1914.