The Six Penny Day Use Area and Group Camp are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

French Creek State Park is located off of Pennsylvania Route 345 to the south of Birdsboro.

[4] The land in and surrounding French Creek State Park was once dominated by old-growth forests of American chestnut.

The thickly wooded hillsides that once provided a habitat for a wide variety of woodland creatures were stripped bare.

[5] The second growth forests that stand today at French Creek State Park are made up of a mixture of oak, maple and other mostly hardwood trees.

The land was reclaimed by the efforts of the young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps created during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to offset unemployment.

The CCC, invited to Pennsylvania by Governor Gifford Pinchot, worked to clear the forests and streams of brush.

[7] Gas powered boats are prohibited in the lakes of French Creek State Park.

More data on local Orienteering events can be found at http://www.dvoa.org French Creek State Park has more than 30 miles (48 km) of trails that are open to hiking and in some places horseback riding, mountain biking, and cross-country skiing.

On April 9, 2012, a forest fire started on the eastern side of Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site due to fallen tree onto a powerline during an unusually warm and dry spring.

The fire followed an unusual October ice and snowstorm that caused tree limb damage.

It also caused numerous evacuations around the eastern and southern edges of the park, though the fire never damaged any homes.