Norristown Farm Park

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- elevation 180 ft (55 m) Phone +1 610-270-0215		Area 2.792 km²

Address 2500 Upper Farm Rd, Norristown, PA 19403, USA Hours Open today · 6AM–7PMFriday6AM–7PMSaturday6AM–7PMSunday6AM–7PMMonday6AM–7PMTuesday6AM–7PMWednesday6AM–7PMThursday6AM–7PMSuggest an edit Similar Fort Washington State Park, Benjamin Rush State Park, Joseph E Ibberson Conserva, McCalls Dam State Park, Sand Bridge State Park

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Norristown Farm Park is a 690-acre (279 ha) Pennsylvania state park in East Norriton and West Norriton Townships and the Borough of Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is operated in partnership with the Montgomery County Department of Parks. The park is a working farm on the site of Norristown State Hospital. Many colonial era farm buildings and homes are on the grounds. Hiking, bicycling, ball fields, fishing, picnicking, and cross-country skiing are available in the park. The park hosts musical concerts in the summer. Stony Creek flows through the park. Norristown Farm Park is just off Interstate 276 on West Germantown Pike.

Norristown Farm Park was originally part of a 7,000-acre (2,800 ha) tract of land called "Williamstadt," which originally belonged to William Penn. The property was then transferred to Isaac Norris, the namesake of Norristown, by way of Penn's son, William Penn, Jr. Norris' heirs sold pieces of Williamstadt to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Norristown State Hospital was opened in the 1870s as a mental hospital. The park is on state-owned land that surrounds the hospital.