{"id":248061,"date":"2026-07-20T23:25:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248061\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T23:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:25:28","slug":"discover-presque-isle-returns-to-celebrate-eries-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248061\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover Presque Isle returns to celebrate Erie\u2019s state park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Discover Presque Isle is back this week, bringing seven days of free family-friendly events and activities to the state park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The annual celebration kicked off on Monday and features everything from guided nature programs and beach yoga to fishing, archery and family activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Wildlife officials celebrate a decade of piping plovers at Presque Isle;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/wildlife-officials-celebrate-a-decade-of-piping-plovers-at-presque-isle\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Wildlife officials celebrate a decade of piping plovers at Presque Isle\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This year&#8217;s lineup also includes the Sand Jam professional sand sculpting competition at Beach 11, acraft and vendor fair, Rotary pancake breakfast, the UPMC Sunset Music Series finale and the annual giant beach bonfire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Discover Presque Isle has celebrated the park for more than 30 years while encouraging residents and tourists to explore everything it has to offer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;People near and far love Presque Isle so much, and it is certainly fitting of a week-long celebration. So, Discover Presque Isle serves as that week-long celebration,&#8221; said John DeMarco, executive director of the Presque Isle Partnership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">All proceeds from the event will benefit the Presque Isle Partnership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Discover Presque Isle is back this week, bringing seven days of free family-friendly events and activities to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,7288,13820],"class_list":["post-248061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-family-activities","tag-presque-isle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}