Boiling Springs, PA

[refreshingly brazen]

Hi! I am looking or a safe place to park my car for 3 nights in Boiling Springs, PA.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

[Freeleo]

walmart

[refreshingly brazen]

Have you ever parked there for 3 nights?

[Wags]

it's a pretty small town on the hickey side of PA. you may just want to call teh local PD and ask them what they suggest

[ao2008]

There is also a AT office there. You may also call them and see if they have a suggestion.

[ShakeyLeggs]

ATC Mid-Atlantic Regional Office
4 East First Street
P.O. Box 625
Boiling Springs, PA 17007
Phone: 717.258.5771
Fax: 717.258.1442
E-mail: [email protected]
Area covered: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia south through Shenandoah National Park (to Rockfish Gap/U.S. 250, near I-64)
Directions (http://www.appalachiantrail.org/site/lookup.asp?c=mqLTIYOwGlF&b=4806125) to ATC Mid-Atlantic Office
The ATC Mid-Atlantic Regional Office also houses the Boiling Springs A.T. Visitor Center (http://www.appalachiantrail.org/site/lookup.asp?c=mqLTIYOwGlF&b=4805591#boilingsprings).

The small parking lot in front of the ATC building is restricted to daytime use. Overnight and long-term hiker parking is available nearby; a free parking permit is required. Permits are available inside the information center. Call (717) 258-5771 for more information about the parking permit.

[Toolshed]

I cannot think of an unsafe place to park there.

[Don H]

Contact the ATC office there, they will send you a permit to park on the lot at the south end of town on the AT at the old iron furnace. I've parked there twice for one week each time, no problems. It's a great little town!

[refreshingly brazen]

Thanks everyone!
Happy Trails to you!

[Datto]

I parked my car at the Boiling Springs permitted location for several days during 2007 and had no trouble.

Datto

[ki0eh]

Boiling Springs has neither Walmart nor a police department. The day I moved into town my moving van driver got yelled at by a neighbor (turned out to be the bark not bite kind of drunk), so the van driver called the cops. Five minutes later there were three PA State Police cruisers in the block, without any real situation to quell they were gone ten minutes after that. That entire summer the neighbors (town drunk and all) talked about "the day the police were here" - clearly a remarkable event in the history of B.S. I still regret moving away.

[Dogwood]

I know this has nothing to do with parking, but while you're in Boiling Springs check out the cool sandwich and ice cream shops. I got some of the best, and unusually flavored, ice cream on the AT in Boiling Springs.