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The Cook Forest State Park Indian Cabin District is a national historic district that includes 11 contributing buildings. They are single room log cabins located on Toms Run behind the park office. They were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps as part of Camp SP-2, which operated in the park from October 1933 to September 1935. [ 11 ]
Hearts Content National Scenic Area is a tract of old-growth forest in Warren County, northwestern Pennsylvania. It represents one of the few remaining old-growth forests in the northeastern United States that contain white pine. [ 2] The area is protected as a National Scenic Area within the Allegheny National Forest.
The Cook Forest State Park of Pennsylvania has the most numerous collection of 45 m (148 ft) eastern white pines in the Northeast, with 110 trees measuring that height or more. The park's "Longfellow Pine" is the tallest presently living eastern white pine in the Northeast, at 55.96 m (183 ft 7 in) tall, as determined by tape drop. [18]
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. From List of National Natural Landmarks, these are the National Natural Landmarks in Pennsylvania. There are 27 in total. Bear Meadows. Cook Forest State Park. Ferncliff Peninsula Natural Area. Hawk Mountain Sanctuary. Hearts Content Scenic Area. Hickory Run State Park.
Pine Creek Gorge, sometimes called The Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania, [1] is a 47-mile (76 km) gorge carved into the Allegheny Plateau by Pine Creek in north-central Pennsylvania. It sits in about 160,000 acres (650 km 2) of the Tioga State Forest. The gorge begins south of Ansonia, near Wellsboro, along U.S. Route 6 and continues south.
The Baker Trail is a 134-mile (216 km) hiking trail in western Pennsylvania in the United States. [1] The trail's southern terminus is across the Allegheny River from the borough of Freeport in Armstrong County. Its northern terminus is in State Game Lands No. 24, in Forest County near a border with Allegheny National Forest. [2]
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Cook Forest is the most important tract of virgin timberland to be found in Pennsylvania and is a 35-mile drive from DuBois. Major Israel McCreight of DuBois was an early advocate, promoter, and steward of the 8,500-acre (3,400 ha) Cook Forest State Park, the first Pennsylvania State Park acquired to preserve a natural landmark. Cook Forest ...