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There are two campgrounds at Kettle Creek State Park. One lacks water spigots and flush toilets. The Lower Campground has 44 sites all with electric hook-ups. The Upper Campground was 27 sites with 12 electric hook-ups. [3] The picnic area has 50 picnic tables with charcoal grills and water spigots. Some picnic tables are sunny and some are shaded.
Kettle Creek is a freestone stream, meaning that there is little limestone and alkalinity in it. [14] The soils in the lower part of the Kettle Creek watershed are highly acidic, deep, and well-drained. A total of 22 percent of the surface rock in this area is interbedded sedimentary rock, while sandstone makes up 78 percent.
The Daugherty Loop Trail uses old logging roads and a railroad grade to pass through the Black Forest of Pennsylvania. The Beaver Dam Nature Trail follows Kettle Creek for 0.75-mile (1.21 km). The Ole Bull Trail leads to the remains of Ole Bull's "castle", Nordjenskald. This area is the site of a panoramic view of the park.
The Kettle Creek Reservoir is impounded by the Alvin R. Bush Dam. The dam is an earth and rockfill, flood control dam. It stands at a maximum height of 165 feet (50 m) above the stream bed and is 1,350 feet (410 m) across. The reservoir has a capacity of 75,000 acre-feet (93,000,000 m 3) at the spillway crest.
[2] [3] The wild area is named for Hammersley Fork, a tributary of Kettle Creek, which flows through the area. The wild area includes 10.78 miles (17.35 km) of the Susquehannock Trail System , an 83.4-mile (134.2 km) loop hiking trail almost entirely on state forest land.
It is one of four such dams in the river basin. The other reservoirs are at Kettle Creek State Park, Curwensville and Bald Eagle State Park. These four reservoirs and dams control a total of 1,163 square miles (3,010 km 2) of drainage area and provides flood prevention for the cities and towns downstream. [3]
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Northeast-facing vista (elevation approximately 2080 feet [634 meters]), Clinton County, within Kettle Creek State Park. Date: 7 September 2008, 13:47:19: Source: originally posted to Flickr as Gorged: Author: Nicholas: Permission (Reusing this file)