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Trough Creek State Park is a 554 acres (224 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Cass, Penn and Todd Townships, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The majority of the park is in Todd Township along Pennsylvania Route 994, east of the unincorporated village of Entriken. Huntingdon is the nearest borough.
Created in 1931 [1] when Crum Creek was dammed near Pennsylvania Route 252, it is an approximately 391-acre (1.58 km 2) drinking-water reservoir maintained by Essential Utilities. It is located within Newtown Township , Marple Township , and Upper Providence Township .
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Pennsylvania. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
Indian Echo Caverns is a historic show cave in Derry Township, Dauphin County near Hershey and Hummelstown, Pennsylvania in the United States. [1] [2] The caverns were mentioned in an article by the Philadelphia Philosophical Society as early as the 1700s.
Following its proposal in 1958, the dam was built by the Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters. The state park was opened to the public in December 1973. In order to create the lake, the state bought 5,286 acres of what was known as the Tohickon Valley, including the community of Tohickon , and surrounding Bucks County areas.
Buffalo Creek is a tributary of the Allegheny River in Armstrong and Butler counties, Pennsylvania in the United States. [ 1 ] Buffalo Creek joins the Allegheny River at the borough of Freeport .
Laurel Caverns is the largest cave in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by volume and area. [3] Located in the community of Farmington , it sits on the Chestnut Ridge near Uniontown , [ 4 ] roughly 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Pittsburgh .
Allegheny Islands State Park is a 43-acre (17 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Harmar Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The undeveloped park is composed of three alluvial islands located in the middle of the Allegheny River northeast of Pittsburgh. [2]