The park contains a museum, tableaux, and trails to help visitors understand the history of the oil industry there, and an excursion train.

The next year the railroad line was extended south to Petroleum Centre and Oil City.

That fall President Ulysses S. Grant visited Titusville to view the booming oil industry.

The first oil millionaire, a resident of Titusville, was Jonathan Watson who owned the land where Drake's well was drilled.

The same land is now part of Oil Creek State Park and the Drake Well Museum.

Another fire occurred on June 5, 1892, when Oil Creek flooded and a tank of benzine overturned.

Oil production peaked the late 1880s and has declined greatly since, although a few operating wells are still located in the park.

Oil Creek State Park was part of a vast effort to reclaim the forests of Pennsylvania.

In May 2009 it appealed a plan to drill three natural gas wells in the park, each 6,000 feet (1,800 m) deep.

[5] Over time, the oil migrated toward the surface, became trapped beneath an impervious layer of caprock, and formed a reservoir.

[7] The Venango Third contained large volumes of oil under high pressure at only 450 to 550 feet (140 to 170 m) below ground level.

"[7] The park offers picnicking, canoeing, fishing, backpacking, cross-country skiing, and bicycling (the last along a paved 9.4 miles (15.1 km) rail-trail).