Centre County is Lion Country, home to Penn State's Nittany Lions.  Located in the heart of Pennsylvania, Lion Country is just a brief flight or a pleasant drive from major East Coast, metropolitan areas.  The friendly people, fine cultural and recreational opportunities, spectacular outdoor life, and inexpensive and comfortable accommodations make Centre County a great place to live and visit.

It is the University that allows us all to savor the "culture in the country" atmosphere of this place where you can be out in the woods in just 10 minutes, then back on campus for a black tie dinner or a traveling Broadway show.  In three to five hours by car (an hour or so by air) you can be in Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia or New York City.

State College and the Centre Region offer all the amenities of a metropolitan area, a first rate public transportation system, world class theater and concert events, and advanced technological light industry and research facilities, without the attending stress.  Scientists, engineers and business men and women from around the world participate in advanced research and executive management programs and conferences on wide range of subjects at the Penn State Conference Center.

Penn State has earned a worldwide reputation for quality education and sports programs.  The Nittany Lions football team has been named national champions twice, while participants in the filed hockey, figure skating, riflery, men's track, women's basketball and wrestling programs have excelled at the Olympics.  There are twenty-eight varsity sports teams and a wide variety of intramural sports programs at Penn State

For culture, you will find plays, musicals and concerts performed by a talented combination of students, faculty and professionals.  The Penn State Center for the Performing Arts boasts three theaters with continually changing events; several annual and summer play series come to local theaters like the Boal Barn Playhouse.

The Centre Region located in Centre County, Pennsylvania, is comprised of the State College Borough, Penn State, and College, Ferguson, Halfmoon, Harris, and Patton townships.  The area's main arteries are Routes 322, 220, 26 and 45, and Interstate 80.

The Centre Region's climate agrees with most people. The mean annual temperature is about 50 degrees, with the hottest month, July, averaging 72 degrees and the coldest, January, averaging 28 degrees.

The area restaurants offer a variety of foods, everything from take-out deli sandwiches to sit-down seven course dinners - and a variety of cuisine - Chines, Continental, Italian, Mexican and Pennsylvania Dutch.  There are presently 94 fast food, bar and grill, and forma restaurants in State College and Boalsburg.  Shopping opportunities, in both the down town area and in the area malls and shopping centers, abound.

University Park Airport is served by United Express, Northwest, and USAirways.  Express flights to to major hubs in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit, Harrisburg and Washington, D.C. and Amtrak's Lewistown station is a mere 30 minute drive the Centre Region.

The Centre Regions Parks and Recreation Department maintains 2 outdoor pools and 29 parks with varying facilities.  In addition,  Penn State has 2 indoor pools and 1 outdoor pool, and maintains a wide variety of intramural sports, tennis courts and indoor racquet sport facilities.

Also see the Math Department's Visitors Information Page.