Loans (Recorded Investment In Nonaccrual Restructured And Loans Past Due 90 Days Or More And Accruing) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	Mar. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014
Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Nonaccrual loans	$ 95,873	$ 100,393
Accruing restructured loans	16,875prk_RestructuredLoans	16,332prk_RestructuredLoans
Loans past due 90 days or more and accruing	1,672	2,709
Total nonperforming loans	114,420	119,434
Commercial Financial And Agricultural [Member]
Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Nonaccrual loans	20,008	18,826
Accruing restructured loans	570	297
Loans past due 90 days or more and accruing	73	229
Total nonperforming loans	20,651	19,352
Construction Real Estate, SEPH Commercial Land and Development [Member]
Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Nonaccrual loans	2,077	2,078
Accruing restructured loans	0	0
Loans past due 90 days or more and accruing	0	0
Total nonperforming loans	2,077	2,078
Construction Real Estate - Remaining Commercial [Member]
Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Nonaccrual loans	5,671	5,558
Accruing restructured loans	54	51
Loans past due 90 days or more and accruing	0	0
Total nonperforming loans	5,725	5,609
Construction Real Estate - Mortgage [Member]
Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Nonaccrual loans	89	59
Accruing restructured loans	93	94
Loans past due 90 days or more and accruing	0	9
Total nonperforming loans	182	162
Construction Real Estate - Installment [Member]
Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Nonaccrual loans	111	115
Accruing restructured loans	121	125
Loans past due 90 days or more and accruing	0	0
Total nonperforming loans	232	240
Residential Real Estate - Commercial [Member]
Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Nonaccrual loans	24,635	24,336
Accruing restructured loans	584	594
Loans past due 90 days or more and accruing	0
Total nonperforming loans	25,219	24,930
Residential Real Estate - Mortgage [Member]
Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Nonaccrual loans	21,323	21,869
Accruing restructured loans	10,631	10,349
Loans past due 90 days or more and accruing	719	1,329
Total nonperforming loans	32,673	33,547
Residential Real Estate - HELOC [Member]
Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Nonaccrual loans	1,822	1,879
Accruing restructured loans	780	630
Loans past due 90 days or more and accruing	0	9
Total nonperforming loans	2,602	2,518
Residential Real Estate - Installment [Member]
Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Nonaccrual loans	1,643	1,743
Accruing restructured loans	708	779
Loans past due 90 days or more and accruing	64
Total nonperforming loans	2,415	2,522
Commercial Real Estate [Member]
Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Nonaccrual loans	14,232	19,299
Accruing restructured loans	2,668	2,690
Loans past due 90 days or more and accruing	0
Total nonperforming loans	16,900	21,989
Consumer [Member]
Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Nonaccrual loans	4,262	4,631
Accruing restructured loans	666	723
Loans past due 90 days or more and accruing	816	1,133
Total nonperforming loans	$ 5,744	$ 6,487

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Restructured Loans

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 310

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 7

-Subparagraph (d)

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