Point State Park

Point State Park
IUCN category V (protected landscape/seascape)
Point State Park in fall
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Location	Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States
Coordinates	40°26′30″N 80°00′43″W / 40.44167°N 80.01194°W / 40.44167; -80.01194
Area	36 acres (15 ha)
Elevation	718 ft (219 m)[1]
Established	August 1974 [1]
Named for	the point of confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers forming the Ohio River
Governing body	Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
Website	Point State Park

Forks of the Ohio
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Marker denoting the point of confluence
NRHP reference No.	66000643[2]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	October 15, 1966
Designated NHL	October 9, 1960[3]

Point State Park (locally known as The Point) is a Pennsylvania state park which is located on 36 acres (150,000 m²) in Downtown Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, forming the Ohio River.

Built on land that was acquired via eminent domain from industrial enterprises during the 1950s, this park opened in August 1974^[4] after construction was completed on its iconic fountain. Pittsburgh settled on the current design after rejecting an alternative plan for a Point Park Civic Center designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The park also includes the outlines and remains of two of the oldest structures in Pittsburgh, Fort Pitt and Fort Duquesne. The Fort Pitt Museum, which is housed in the Monongahela Bastion of Fort Pitt, commemorates the French and Indian War (1754–63), during which the area soon to become Pittsburgh became a major battlefield. It was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1960 for its role in the strategic struggles between Native Americans, French colonists, and British colonists, for control of the Ohio River watershed.^[5]