Compiled by Marcus Schneck, mschneck@pennlive.com

Pennsylvania has no national parks, but it is home to more than 2 dozen sites, trails, heritage areas and corridors managed by the National Park Service.

Here’s a look at them all.

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Schuylkill River Valley

National Heritage Area

The Schuylkill River Heritage Area in southeastern focuses on the region that was the birthplace of movements that shaped the nation, fueled its growth,and reclaimed its future. It was along the banks of the river and its tributaries that the American, Industrial and Environmental Revolutions were born.

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Allegheny Portage Railroad

National Historic Site.

When the Allegheny Portage Railroad opened in 1834, it was the first time that one, direct route connected Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. The first railroad to circumvent the Allegheny Mountains, it was the finishing section of the Pennsylvania Mainline Canal

Size: 1249 acres. Location: Gallitzin.

The site includes the Summit Level Visitor Center, the historic Lemon House, Engine House No. 6 Exhibit Shelter, the Skew Arch Bridge, picnic area and hiking trails.

Here's more about the Allegheny Portage Railroad.

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Appalachian Trail

National Scenic Trail.

Conceived in 1921 and built by private citizens, the Appalachian Trail runs from Maine to Georgia. It’s one of the most famous footpaths in the world, attracting everyone from casual hikers to hardcore thru-hikers, who spend months making the entire trek on foot.

Size: About 2,200 miles long; about 230 miles in Pennsylvania. Location: In Pennsylvania, the Appalachian Trail passes through Franklin, Cumberland, Perry, Dauphin, Lebanon, Schuylkill, Berks, Lehigh, Northampton, Carbon and Monroe counties.

The Pennsylvania section of the Appalachian Trail is known as a particularly rocky and punishing portion of the trail. The nickname of “Bootsylvania” refers to the destruction of hiking boots often inflicted by the Pennsylvania portion of the trail.

Here's more about the Appalachian Trail.

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Captain John Smith Chesapeake

National Historic Trail.

Four hundred years ago Englishman John Smith and a small crew of adventurers set out in an open boat to explore the Chesapeake Bay. From 1607-09, Englishman John Smith and his crew mapped nearly 3,000 miles of the Chesapeake Bay and rivers flowing into it, and documented the American Indian communities they found there.

Size: About 3,000 miles long, Location: Connects sites in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Washington D.C. and New York.

The trail is designed to lead visitors on an exploration of the history, natural history and modern tourism of the Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in North America.

Here, you can visit major league cities, colonial towns, American Indian landscapes, farms and fishing villages. You can learn to kayak, pick crabs, go fishing, tour a lighthouse, slurp oysters, and slow down to enjoy the natural beauty of the Chesapeake.

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Delaware & Lehigh

National Heritage Corridor.

National Heritage Areas are places where historic, cultural, and natural resources combine to form cohesive, nationally important landscapes. Unlike national parks, National Heritage Areas are large lived-in landscapes. Consequently, National Heritage Area organizations collaborate with communities to determine how to make heritage relevant to local interests and needs.

The D&L National Heritage Corridor includes 5 counties, “bursting with heritage and brimming with outdoor adventure. Follow the D&L Trail, a historic pathway marked with stories about hearty lumberjacks, coal miners, lock tenders and railroaders. Explore the history of the Corridor at the National Canal Museum or along quiet canal paths, challenging bike trails and the rippling waters of the river.”

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Delaware Water Gap

National Recreation Area.

Delaware Water Gap includes 40 miles of the Middle Delaware National Scenic and Recreational River; more than 100 miles of hiking trails; 27 miles of the Appalachian Trail; more than 100 miles of scenic roadways; historic villages, structures and landscapes from the valley's colonial past; and agricultural fields that have been farmed for more than a thousand years

Size: 70,000 acres. Location: Headquartered in Bushkill, but extending along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania and New Jersey from Milford to Slateford.

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Edgar Allan Poe

National Historic Site.

Known for his tales and poems of horror and mystery, including "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Raven," Edgar Allan Poe lived in a modest house in Philadelphia for 6 years (1838-1844), some of his happiest and most productive years. But he was struggling with bad luck, personal demons and his wife’s illness.

Location: 532 North Seventh Street, Philadelphia.

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Eisenhower

National Historic Site

Adjacent to the Gettysburg Battlefield, the Eisenhower National Historic Site is the former home and farm of General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower. It was a weekend retreat for the president and a meeting place for world leaders, and now contains more than 48,000 artifacts.

Location: Gettysburg.

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Flight 93

National Memorial

The U.S. came under terrorist attack on the morning of September 11, 2001, when four commercial airliners were hijacked and used to strike targets on the ground. Nearly 3,000 people were killed. But, because of the actions of the 40 passengers and crew aboard one of the planes, Flight 93, the attack on the U.S. Capitol was thwarted. The plane crashed into a hillside near Shanksville.

The Visitor Center Complex includes exhibit space, Flight Path Overlook and Eastern National bookstore and sales area. The Memorial Plaza includes a small visitor shelter and a quarter-mile walkway along the crash site and debris field, leading to the Wall of Names.

Size: 690 acres. Location: Shanksville.

More about the Flight 93 Memorial.

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Fort Necessity

National Battlefield

The battle at Fort Necessity on July 3, 1754, was the opening action of the French and Indian War. British, French and American Indian troops clashed in the Great Meadows. British colonial forces under Colonel George Washington eventually surrendered to the French and Indians under Louis Coulon de Villiers.

The site also includes the Mount Washington Tavern, once one of the inns along the National Road, and in two separate units the grave of British General Edward Braddock, killed in 1755, and the site of the Battle of Jumonville Glen.

Size: 900 acres. Location: Farmington.

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Friendship Hill

National Historic Site

As Secretary of the Treasury during the Jefferson and Madison administrations, Albert Gallatin purchased the Louisiana Territory and funded the Lewis & Clark exploration. His accomplishments and contributions are highlighted at Friendship Hill, his restored country estate.

Size: 661 acres. Location: Point Marion.

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Gettysburg

National Military Park

The Battle of Gettysburg on July 1-3, 1863, was a turning point in the Civil War, the Union victory that ended General Robert E. Lee's second and most ambitious invasion of the North. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia of 70,100 men fought the 93,700 men of the Federal Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General George G. Meade. It was the bloodiest battle of the war, with 45,000-51,000 casualties.

Size: About 6,000 acres. Location: Gettysburg.

Here's more about Gettysburg.

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Gloria Dei Church

National Historic Site

Gloria Dei is the oldest church in Pennsylvania and one of the oldest in the U.S. Swedish pioneers in what they called New Sweden were the first to settle the area in 1646. An existing blockhouse at Wicaco (now South Philadelphia), had been renovated for worship in 1677 and was used until the present church was consecrated on the First Sunday after Trinity, July 2, 1700.

Location: 916 S. Swanson Street, Philadelphia.

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Hopewell Furnace

National Historic Site

Elverson, PA

An early American industrial landscape, including historic structures to illustrate business, technology and lifestyle of a young, growing nation, are part of Hopewell Furnace, which operated from 1771-1883. Hopewell and other "iron plantations" laid the foundation for the transformation of the U.S. into an industrial giant.

Size: 848 acres. Location: Elverson.

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Independence

National Historical Park

A new republic was born in Philadelphia. The Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution were both debated and signed inside Independence Hall. Nearby sits the Liberty Bell, an international symbol of liberty.

Location: Philadelphia.

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Johnstown Flood

National Memorial

The South Fork dam failed on Friday, May 31, 1889, unleashing 20 million tons of water that devastated Johnstown and killed 2,209 people. The story of the tragedy was an international headline, drawing aid from across the globe for the "Johnstown sufferers."

Location: South Fork.

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Lower Delaware

National Wild and Scenic River

The Delaware is the largest free-flowing river in the eastern U.S. From Sandt’s Eddy 39 ruver-miles downriver to Washington Crossing State Park, it runs past forests, farmlands, and villages, and it also links some of the most densely populated regions in America. In 2000, the National Wild and Scenic River System incorporated key segments of the lower Delaware to form a unit of the National Park System.

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North Country

National Scenic Trail

The North Country National Scenic Trail is the longest in the National Trails System, stretching across 7 states from the middle of North Dakota to the Vermont border of New York. It traverses through a national grassland, 10 national forests, more than 150 federal, state and local public lands; near 3 of the Great Lakes; past countless farmlands; through large cityscapes; over many rivers; and through the Adirondacks.

Size: 4,600 miles long. Location: New York to North Dakota, across 7 states, including Pennsylvania, where it passes through McKean, Warren, Forest, Clarion, Venango, Armstrong, Butler, Lawrence and Beaver counties.

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Oil Region

National Heritage Area

National Heritage Areas are places where historic, cultural, and natural resources combine to form cohesive, nationally important landscapes. Unlike national parks, National Heritage Areas are large lived-in landscapes. Consequently, National Heritage Area organizations collaborate with communities to determine how to make heritage relevant to local interests and needs.

Oil Region National Heritage Area in northwestern Pennsylvania tells the story of the world’s first successful commercial oil well at Oil City and the legacy of petroleum. The Oil Region includes oil artifacts, scenic communities, farmlands and woodlands, and industrial landscapes.

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Potomac Heritage

National Scenic Trail

Linking the tidal Potomac and upper Youghiogheny river basins, the evolving Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail network lies within a corridor rich in historic pathways and waterways. From the Chesapeake Bay to the Allegheny Plateau, the historic corridor can be traveled on foot, bicycle, horse and boat.

Size: 710 miles through Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. Location: In Pennsylvania the trail passes through Fayette County.

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Rivers of Steel

National Heritage Area

National Heritage Areas are places where historic, cultural, and natural resources combine to form cohesive, nationally important landscapes. Unlike national parks, National Heritage Areas are large lived-in landscapes. Consequently, National Heritage Area organizations collaborate with communities to determine how to make heritage relevant to local interests and needs.

In southwestern Pennsylvania, the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area “reveals how one region, in a sustained and thunderous blast of innovation, ambition and fire, forever changed America and its place in the world. It is the story of the industrialists and the workers who pushed an infant industry to it ultimate limits and in doing so pushed the world into the Age of Steel.

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Steamtown

National Historic Site

Through its collection of locomotives and rolling stock, working railroading buildings and the machines and tool that kept the railroads running, along with train excursions, Steamtown preserves the era of the train.

Location: Lackawanna Avenue at Cliff Street, Scranton.

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Thaddeus Kosciuszko

National Memorial

Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Polish freedom fighter and fortification engineer for the Continental Army in the American Revolution, lived in Philadelphia for a period after being seriously wounded in one of the last battles of the Revolution. In that house, he received notable visitors such as Chief Little Turtle and Thomas Jefferson.

Location: Third and Pine Streets, Philadelphia.

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Upper Delaware

National Scenic and Recreational River

Mild rapids and quiet pools of the Upper Delaware River are ideal for canoeing, kayaking and rafting. It’s also one of the finest fishing rivers in the northeastern U.S. That’s all available in a river that winds its way through a valley of swiftly changing scenery and riverfront villages.

Size:73 river miles. Location: Pike and Wayne counties in Pennsylvania, and Delaware, Orange and Sullivan counties in New York.

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Valley Forge

National Historical Park

Valley Forge was the site of the 1777-78 winter encampment of George Washington’s Continental Army. Historic structures, monuments, meadows, and woodlands commemorate the history that happened on the site.

Size: 3,500 acres. Location: Valley Forge.

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Washington-Rochambeau

National Historic Trail

In 1781, General Rochambeau’s French Army joined forces with General Washington’s Continental Army to fight the British Army in Yorktown, Virginia. With the French Navy in support, the allied armies moved hundreds of miles to become the largest troop movement of the American Revolution. The effort and cooperation between the two sides led to a victory at Yorktown and secured American independence.

Location: Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.