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State Forest Name County Area acres (ha) Founded Remarks Kittanning: Jefferson: 13,266 acres (5,369 ha) 1919: Summer 2007, renamed Clear Creek State Forest Valley Forge: Chester: 812 acres (329 ha) January 1935: August 2007, renamed William Penn State Forest Lackawanna: Lackawanna 44,743 acres (18,107 ha)
Also a National Natural Landmark; largest of the State Forest Natural Areas. Traversed by the West Rim Trail and Pine Creek Rail Trail. [16] [61] Pine Lake Natural Area: Delaware: Pike: 67 acres (27 ha) [18] [62] Pine Ridge Natural Area: Buchanan: Bedford: 568 acres (230 ha) 1970: Features reclaimed farms and resettlement lands. [63] [64] Pine ...
Hemlock State Forest Park [41] Perry County: unknown: Hemlocks Natural Area [42] Now part of Tuscarora State Forest (Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry) Independence Mall State Park [4] [5] [43] Philadelphia County: 1975: Independence National Historical Park [44] Now a National Park Service site Moosic Lake State Park [4] Lackawanna County: 1930s ...
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States includes 18 wild areas in its State Forest system. [1] They are managed by the Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry, a division of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
The primary hydrological feature at Moon Lake Recreation Area is Moon Lake—a 48-acre (19 ha), spring-fed lake. [5] The lake is located centrally in the park. Moon Lake resides in the Susquehanna River Basin—a Warm Water Fishery. It is a passageway for migrating fish. Specifically, Moon Lake is in the Hunlock Creek watershed—a Cold Water ...
Charcoal Hearth Campground along Bendersville Rd is 0.25 miles (0.40 km) south of the park's store and has 71 sites for travel trailers and tenting, and across the road is a wooded "organized group tenting" area around an open playing field (a YMCA camp is near Laurel Lake). [14] The Paymasters Cabin has central heating and is available for rent.
Hickory Run State Park is a 15,990-acre (6,471 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Kidder and Penn Forest Townships in Carbon County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park is spread across the Pocono Mountains .
Clear Creek State Park is open to many recreational opportunities. There are 25 miles (40 km) of hiking trails that run through the park and into Clear Creek State Forest. One such trail leads to Bear Town Rocks, a group of large boulders in the middle of the forest, from the top of which one can get a scenic view of the surrounding area.