Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn, left, and Insurance Department Policy Director Megan Barbour demonstrate proper social distancing of at least six feet while hiking on a Cumberland County trail.
Nearly all Pennsylvanians who have visited parks, trails and other open spaces during the coronavirus pandemic rate their experiences as essential to their mental and physical health.
In a survey of 1,001 Pennsylvanians by the Center for Survey Research at Penn State Harrisburg, 86 percent of respondents said time in the outdoors over the past year has been essential to their mental and/or physical health.
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