From the website:
The aims of the Mercer County Park Commission shall be to provide recreation for all persons of all ages and creeds. To meet the recreational need as it exists and as it changes with the times and to serve, promote, encourage, and stimulate interests in leisure time activities for the benefit of the common wealth. To provide the general public maximum recreational facilities at minimal cost, in keeping with the governmental functions to preserve open space for the conservation of natural, historic, and scenic areas to assist in programs dedicated to the preservation of wildlife to participate in soil and water conservation projects and to provide areas, facilities, personnel, finance, program, administration, and leadership to the betterment of man and woman.