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The Quehanna plateau is home to the Quehanna Trail, a 73.2-mile (117.8 km) loop hiking trail, about 34 miles (55 km) of which are in Quehanna Wild Area. The trail was built in 1976 and 1977 with help from a federally funded jobs program, the Young Adult Conservation Corps, and the Pennsylvania Conservation Corps.
The 1,215-acre (492 ha) natural area is in the center of Quehanna Wild Area. It was once home to two jet engine testing cells, when the area was a research facility for Curtiss-Wright Corporation from 1955 to 1960. [2] [3] [1] The tract was originally known as simply Wykoff Run Natural Area.
Wykoff Run in Quehanna Wild Area, the largest such protected area in Pennsylvania. 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.
It is the largest area without a road in Pennsylvania and the state's second largest wild area (the first being Quehanna Wild Area). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The wild area is named for Hammersley Fork , a tributary of Kettle Creek , which flows through the area.
Sep. 6—CABINET MOUNTAINS WILDERNESS — A little less than a half-mile up the trail to Leigh Lake, just about when the incline begins to get annoying, there's a light blue sign screwed to a tree.
The Quehanna Trail is a 73.2-mile (117.8 km) hiking trail in north-central Pennsylvania, forming a loop through Moshannon State Forest and Elk State Forest. [1] For about 34 miles, the trail traverses Quehanna Wild Area , [ 2 ] and its main trailhead is at Parker Dam State Park . [ 3 ]
Moshannon State Forest is a Pennsylvania State Forest in Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry District #9. The main offices are located in the unincorporated village of Penfield in Huston Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania in the United States.
Marion Brooks Natural Area is a state forest natural area in Moshannon State Forest in Benezette Township, Elk County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.The 917-acre (371 ha) natural area is located on the northwest edge of Quehanna Wild Area. [2]