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Worlds End State Park is a Pennsylvania state park in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The park, nearly surrounded by Loyalsock State Forest, is in the Loyalsock Creek valley on Pennsylvania Route 154, in Forks and Shrewsbury Townships southeast of the borough of Forksville. The name ''Worlds End'' has been used since at least 1872, but its origins are uncertain. Although it was founded as ''Worlds End State Forest Park'' by Governor Gifford Pinchot in 1932, the park was officially known as ''Whirls End State Forest Park'' from 1936 to 1943.〔 The park's land was once home to Native Americans, followed by settlers who cleared the forests for subsistence farming and later built sawmills. The second growth forests in and surrounding Worlds End State Park are partially a result of the efforts of the young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. They helped overcome the clearcutting of the early 20th century, and built many of the park's facilities, including the cabins that earned it a place on the National Register of Historic Places. A wide variety of wildlife is found in the park, which is also part of an Important Bird Area. Located in the Endless Mountains region of the dissected Allegheny Plateau, Worlds End has a continental climate and rocks and fossils from the Carboniferous period. It is one of "Twenty Must-See Pennsylvania State Parks" named by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, which describes it as "()irtually in a class by itself, this wild, rugged and rustic area seems almost untamed".〔 The park offers year-round recreational opportunities, including environmental education, hiking, camping in tents and cabins, whitewater rafting, swimming, cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, hunting, and fishing. ==Name== An 1872 map uses the name ''Worlds End'' for the area around the S-shaped serpentine bend in Loyalsock Creek.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Worlds End State Park: History )〕 Worlds End State Forest Park opened in 1932, and its name has caused some confusion and controversy over the years. William S. Swingler, Assistant District Forester of Wyoming State Forest (reorganized as Loyalsock State Forest in 2005), penned this note about the story of the name in 1935: This was not the end of the controversy. A letter campaign led to the name of the park being changed to ''Whirls End State Forest Park'' in 1936; opponents of the new name launched another letter-writing campaign to revert the name to ''Worlds End State Forest Park''. This matter was brought before the State Geographic Board, which supervised the official naming of places. The board ruled that the name be changed once again to ''Worlds End State Forest Park'' in 1943.〔 The word ''Forest'' was dropped on November 11, 1954, when the park was officially named ''Worlds End State Park'' by the Pennsylvania Geographic Board. This has been the official name ever since, but the names ''Whirls End'' and ''Whirls Glen'' are still used, and are synonymous with Worlds End.〔〔 Two other etymologies have been suggested. The first is that an early road along the gorge had a sheer drop to the creek hundreds of feet below, which prompted thoughts of the world's end in early travelers.〔〔 The second is that the bend in Loyalsock Creek, and the surrounding area that became the park, was originally known as ''Huerle's Bend'', but then "years of mispronunciation turned it into World's End (State Park)". Whatever the source, as of 2012 the name ''Worlds End State Park'' is unique in the USGS Geographic Names Information System and on its maps of the United States.〔 The possessive apostrophe is not part of the official name, although it does appear in older records and in informal usage today.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Worlds End State Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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