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Nottingham County Park

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Real Estate Agent with Realty ONE Group Advocates 484-237-2055 PA License - AB067198

Just fifteen minutes from our new home is Nottingham County Park. This was the first Chester County Park and was dedicated in September 1963. Located at 150 Park Road, Nottingham, PA 19362. The Herrs Factory is not far away, and you can take a factory tour there as well.

You can download a copy of the park trail map here.

The park is 731 acres in size with trails, a horse riding ring, and horse trails, a fitness trail with 18 stations, the link above allows you to reserve a pavilion, and three modern handicap accessible playgrounds. There are also nine pavilions which you can reserve for events, I believe all have a grill next to them and port-a-pottys close by. There are plentiful trash bins too. 

I took Jackie with me two weeks ago and this weekend Annie, my fiancé, Jackie and I all went for a visit. We parked in the main lot and walked down toward MacPherson lake and around it. We discovered the concrete foundations of a placer chromite mine that was built during the First World War probably to provide Chromium for munitions.

MacPherson Lake Nottingham County park

We noticed that the colors are changing on the trees and it will definitely be more beautiful as the weeks pass. The lake is not large, but you can fish, with a license on a catch and release system. We saw a father and son spending time together beside the lake fishing.

Jackie also got to see her first horse, as a couple of riders unloaded from a trailer and were using the park for a ride. We also noticed some areas allow bow hunting in season, so with Jackie in tow we avoided that trail.

The park sits atop an outcropping of serpentine stone larger than one square mile in size, one of the largest serpentine barrens on the East Coast. I had never heard of serpentine, but the park website linked above has the following explanation.

Serpentine, a geological outcrop of rare, light-green rock found only in three small geographic areas in all of North America, has soil so low in essential nutrients and so high in some metals that most ordinary plants will not grow. The barrens have their own community of plants, some of them globally-rare, with practically no species in common with the surrounding forests and fields. 

Typically, serpentine barrens contain scrub oak, pine, cedar and unique wildflowers. Some areas dominated by grasses are known as true prairies. Some areas with scattered trees are known as a savannah, which can survive and prosper with occasional fires.

It is fascinating what you can learn and discover right on your doorstep. Later today, we are going to visit another park nearby which has just been announced as a new state park, Big Elk State Park.

If you are looking for a home in Chester County and need help, give me a call, there is so much to discover in our county, it is a wonderful place. Contact Nick Vandekar, Selling the Main Line and Chester County, with Long & Foster Real Estate Inc., office 610-225-7400, cell or text 610-203-4543, or email  Nick@VandekarTeam.com. I look forward to helping you discover this great county and finding the right home for you.

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Comments (16)

Nina Hollander, Broker
Coldwell Banker Realty - Charlotte, NC
Your Greater Charlotte Realtor

Hi Nick... what a truly gorgeous place... and it's certainly enhanced by the changing colors of autumn.

Oct 10, 2022 12:12 PM
Hannah Williams
HomeStarr Realty - Philadelphia, PA
Expertise NE Philadelphia & Bucks 215-820-3376

Nick Vandekar, 610-203-4543  you will always be my go-to guy in this part of Pa. Have a great week 

Oct 10, 2022 12:19 PM
Lawrence "Larry" & Sheila Agranoff. Cell: 631-805-4400
The Top Team @ Charles Rutenberg Realty 255 Executive Dr, Plainview NY 11803 - Plainview, NY
Long Island Condo and Home Specialists

Such outstanding photos you have included Nick. We enjoy finding new places and parks are always on our go-to list!

Oct 10, 2022 12:39 PM
Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
Pasadena And Southern California 818.516.4393

Hello Nick - great job discovering the many good points of interest near your new home in Chester County Pennsylvania.  

Oct 10, 2022 01:32 PM
Bill Salvatore - East Valley
Arizona Elite Properties - Chandler, AZ
Realtor - 602-999-0952 / em: golfArizona@cox.net

Happy Monday,

Great information.  Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week!

Bill with #AEP

Oct 10, 2022 01:52 PM
Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
Home Stager/Redesign

Hi Nick- what a beautiful park!!! And how lucky that you are getting to see the leaves change there.  Wonder what it will look like next week?

Oct 10, 2022 07:21 PM
Brian England
Ambrose Realty Management LLC - Gilbert, AZ
MBA, GRI, REALTOR® Real Estate in East Valley AZ

That definitely looks and sounds like a wonderful place to visit often, I am glad that you have it near you to enjoy!

Oct 11, 2022 04:54 AM
Joan Cox
House to Home, Inc. - Denver Real Estate - 720-231-6373 - Denver, CO
Denver Real Estate - Selling One Home at a Time

Nick, sure looks like a wonderful park to go for a walk with your pup and fiance.   Your trees are starting to change.

Oct 11, 2022 05:51 AM
Nick Vandekar, 610-203-4543
Realty ONE Group Advocates 484-237-2055 - Downingtown, PA
Selling the Main Line & Chester County

Nina Hollander, Broker it is mixed, lots of areas are still very green, but the hillside is showing the evidence of the fall.

Hannah Williams thank you.

Lawrence "Larry" & Sheila Agranoff. Cell: 631-805-4400 always happy to discover a new park. I loved the history involved with this one.

Michael Jacobs Chester County has lots to do and see near us, Longwood Gardens, Winterthur which is Delaware, and the Brandywine Museum plus lots of very good restaurants.

Bill Salvatore - East Valley thanks for stopping by.

 

Oct 11, 2022 07:39 AM
Nick Vandekar, 610-203-4543
Realty ONE Group Advocates 484-237-2055 - Downingtown, PA
Selling the Main Line & Chester County

Kathy Streib the leaves can change quickly, depending on the weather, we are supposed to get a big storm coming through later this week.

Brian England good size park with different trails.

Joan Cox we get good color on our trees, we really do not have to travel to enjoy.

Oct 11, 2022 07:41 AM
Roy Kelley
Retired - Gaithersburg, MD

This is good information to share with area residents and visitors.

Enjoy the park.

Oct 11, 2022 08:03 AM
Will Hamm
Hamm Homes - Aurora, CO
"Where There's a Will, There's a Way!"

Hello Nick and sure the leaves are coming down soon and fun to here leaves noise under the feet.  Make it a great day!

Oct 11, 2022 08:55 AM
Nick Vandekar, 610-203-4543
Realty ONE Group Advocates 484-237-2055 - Downingtown, PA
Selling the Main Line & Chester County

Roy Kelley writing the post i discovered far more out about the park than when we had visited.

Will Hamm most leaves have not fallen yet, but we are starting to see some begin due to stress from lack of water.

Oct 11, 2022 10:45 AM
Paul S. Henderson, REALTOR®, CRS
Fathom Realty Washington LLC - Tacoma, WA
South Puget Sound Washington Agent/Broker!

Thank you for sharing this beautiful park with us Nick Vandekar, 610-203-4543 

Oct 11, 2022 09:45 PM
Nick Vandekar, 610-203-4543
Realty ONE Group Advocates 484-237-2055 - Downingtown, PA
Selling the Main Line & Chester County

Paul S. Henderson, REALTOR®, CRS I do not have the wonderful shots you have of the water, but I think this park is pretty with the changing colors.

Oct 12, 2022 05:37 AM
Patricia Feager, MBA, CRS, GRI,MRP
DFW FINE PROPERTIES - Flower Mound, TX
Selling Homes Changing Lives

Nick Vandekar, 610-203-4543 - you live in a very beautiful part of Pennsylvania! I don't think I would ever get tired of the landscaping. Your trees in fall must be gorgeous!

Oct 13, 2022 02:03 AM