Cato (also Cato Park) is a neighborhood, an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
, and an
office park in
Ferguson Township,
Centre County,
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...
, United States. It is part of
Happy Valley and the larger
Nittany Valley
Nittany Valley is an erosion, eroded anticline, anticlinal valley located in Centre County, Pennsylvania, Centre County, Pennsylvania. It is separated from the Bald Eagle Valley by Bald Eagle Mountain and from Penns Valley by Mount Nittany. The va ...
.
Offices and Businesses
Cato is home to several offices, restaurants, and businesses including the Ferguson Township Municipal Building, Ferguson Township Police Department, Centre Area Transportation Authority, and multiple buildings belonging to the Pennsylvania State University including the Cato Park Library Annex, and two facilities belonging to the
Department of Defense
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funded
Applied Research Laboratory.
Transportation
Cato Park is served by the College Avenue Connector operated by
CATA.
Pennsylvania Route 26 passes along Cato.
Cato is connected to Orchard Park via the CATO/Stonebridge
Bikeway and Haymarket Park via the Bristol Avenue Path. The neighborhood also has an unprotected
bike lane
Bike lanes (US) or cycle lanes (UK) are types of bikeways (cycleways) with lanes on the roadway for cyclists only. In the United Kingdom, an on-road cycle-lane can be firmly restricted to cycles (marked with a solid white line, entry by motor ...
along Whitehall Rd.
References
{{Centre County, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated communities in Centre County, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania
Nittany Valley