Sand Bridge State Park

{{Short description|State park in Union County, Pennsylvania}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}

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| name = Sand Bridge State Park

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| photo = SBSP Rapid Run 1.JPG

| photo_caption = Rapid Run passes through Sand Bridge State Park

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| map_caption = Location of Sand Bridge State Park in Pennsylvania

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| location = Lewis, Union, Pennsylvania, United States

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| coordinates = {{coord|40|59|54|N|77|06|54|W|display=inline,title}}

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| area_acre = 3

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| elevation = {{convert|1572|ft|m|abbr=on}}{{cite web | url={{Gnis3|1198424}} | title=Sand Bridge State Park | date = August 30, 1990 | work=Geographic Names Information System | publisher=United States Geological Survey | access-date=2007-12-18}}

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| established = 1978

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| visitation_num = 17,000

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| governing_body = Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

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| website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20111106212159/http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/findapark/sandbridge/index.htm Sand Bridge State Park]

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Sand Bridge State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on {{convert|3|acre|km2|2}} in Lewis Township, Union County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park is the smallest state park in Pennsylvania and consists of a picnic area just off Pennsylvania Route 192. It has three picnic pavilions that were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Rapid Run, a trout stream that is stocked by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, flows through Sand Bridge State Park. The park attracted 17,000 visitors in 2008.{{cite web | url = http://dailyitem.com/0100_news/x691321090/States-budget-idea-baffles-Valley-anglers-campers | title = State's budget idea baffles Valley anglers, campers | author = Laeplle, Wayne | date = May 30, 2009 | access-date = September 14, 2010 | publisher = The Daily Item}} The name Sand Bridge remains a mystery. No one, according to the parks official website knows why the area is known as Sand Bridge. The park is surrounded by Bald Eagle State Forest and became a Pennsylvania State park in 1978.{{cite web | url = http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/findapark/sandbridge/index.htm| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111106212159/http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/findapark/sandbridge/index.htm| url-status = dead| archive-date = November 6, 2011| title = Sand Bridge State Park | access-date = 2006-11-15 | publisher = Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources }}