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There are 20 state forests in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States. They are managed by the Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry, a division of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
A reorganization effective July 1, 2005 shifted territory among several state forests in eastern Pennsylvania, resulting in the elimination of Wyoming State Forest and the creation of Loyalsock State Forest.
State Forest Name | County | Area acres (ha) | Founded | Remarks |
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Bald Eagle | Centre, Clinton, Mifflin, Union, & Snyder | 194,602 acres (78,750 ha) [1] | Contains 1,781 combined acres of old grown forest [2] | |
Buchanan | Bedford, Franklin, & Fulton | 71,683 acres (29,010 ha) [3] | ||
Clear Creek | Clarion, Forest, Jefferson, Mercer & Venango | 16,716 acres (6,765 ha) [4] | 1919, as Kittanning State Forest | Name changed 2007 |
Cornplanter | Crawford, Forest, & Warren | 1,585 acres (641 ha) [5] | Named in honor of Seneca Chief Cornplanter | |
Delaware | Pike & Monroe | 85,114 acres (34,444 ha) [6] | ||
Elk | Cameron, Clinton, Elk, McKean, & Potter | 217,000 acres (87,820 ha) [7] | 1900 | |
Forbes | Fayette, Somerset, & Westmoreland | 59,000 acres (23,880 ha) [8] | ||
Gallitzin | Bedford, Cambria, Indiana, & Somerset | 24,370 acres (9,862 ha) [9] | 1916 | |
Loyalsock | Bradford, Lycoming, & Sullivan | 114,552 acres (46,360 ha) [10] | July 1, 2005 | Replaced Wyoming State Forest |
Michaux | Adams, Cumberland, & Franklin | over 85,500 acres (34,600 ha) [11] | ||
Moshannon | Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, & Elk | 190,031 acres (76,903 ha) [12] | 1898 | |
Pinchot | Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne, & Wyoming | 54,000 acres (21,853 ha) [13] | ||
Rothrock | Centre, Huntingdon, & Mifflin | 96,975 acres (39,240 ha) [14] | ||
Sproul | Cameron, Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, & Potter | 305,450 acres (123,610 ha) [15] | 1898 | |
Susquehannock | Clinton, McKean, & Potter | 265,000 acres (107,242 ha) [16] | ||
Tiadaghton | Clinton, Lycoming, Potter, Tioga, & Union | 146,539 acres (59,300 ha) [17] | ||
Tioga | Bradford, Lycoming, & Tioga | 161,890 acres (65,510 ha) [18] | 1900 | |
Tuscarora | Cumberland, Franklin, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, & Perry | 96,025 acres (38,860 ha) [19] | ||
Weiser | Carbon, Columbia, Dauphin, Northumberland, & Schuylkill | 30,000 acres (12,141 ha) [20] | ||
William Penn | Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, & Lancaster | 1,683 acres (681 ha) [21] | January 1935, as Valley Forge State Forest | August 2007, became William Penn State Forest |
State Forest Name | County | Area acres (ha) | Founded | Remarks |
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Wyoming | Sullivan | July 2005, became Loyalsock State Forest |
State Forest Name | County | Area acres (ha) | Founded | Remarks |
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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) | August 2015, renamed Pinchot State Forest |
Lycoming County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 114,188. Its county seat is Williamsport. The county is part of the Central Pennsylvania region of the state.
Worlds End State Park is a 780-acre (316 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. The park, nearly surrounded by Loyalsock State Forest, is in the Loyalsock Creek valley on Pennsylvania Route 154 in Forks and Shrewsbury Townships southeast of the borough of Forksville. The name Worlds End has been used since at least 1872, but its origins are uncertain. Although it was founded as Worlds End State Forest Park by Governor Gifford Pinchot in 1932, the park was officially known as Whirls End State Forest Park from 1936 to 1943.
Rothrock State Forest is a Pennsylvania state forest in Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry District #5. The main offices are located in Huntingdon in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania in the United States.
Bald Eagle State Forest is a Pennsylvania state forest in Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry District #7. The main office is located in Laurelton in Union County, Pennsylvania. The forest is found in Centre, Clinton, Mifflin, Snyder, and Union Counties. Bald Eagle shares a common border on its western extent with Rothrock State Forest and on its northern extent with Tiadaghton State Forest.
Tuscarora State Forest is a Pennsylvania state forest in Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry District #3. The main office is located in Blain in Perry County, Pennsylvania in the United States.
White Deer Hole Creek is a 20.5-mile (33.0 km) tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna River in Clinton, Lycoming and Union counties in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. A part of the Chesapeake Bay drainage basin, the White Deer Hole Creek watershed drains parts of ten townships. The creek flows east in a valley of the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians, through sandstone, limestone, and shale from the Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian periods.
Tiadaghton State Forest is a Pennsylvania State Forest in the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of Forestry. The forest is primarily in western and southern Lycoming County, with small portions in Clinton, Potter, Tioga, and Union Counties. The district's topography consists of narrow, flat to sloping plateaus cut by deep, steep-sloped valleys carved by fast moving mountain streams, including Pine Creek, Slate Run, and their tributaries. The Tiadaghton district extends south across the lowland along the west branch of the Susquehanna River to the narrow crests of Bald Eagle Mountain and North and South White Deer Ridge. The majority of forest cover is dominated by mixed oak forests, with some areas of northern hardwoods. The Tiadaghton State Forest is one of eight forest districts in the Pennsylvania Wilds region.
Tioga State Forest is a Pennsylvania State Forest in District #16, in the Allegheny Plateau region within Tioga County, Pennsylvania.
Wyoming State Forest was the name of the Pennsylvania State Forest in Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry District #20. As of July 1, 2005, a reorganization of Pennsylvania State Forests in eastern Pennsylvania resulted in the elimination of the name "Wyoming State Forest". The District #20 main office was located in Bloomsburg in Columbia County, Pennsylvania in the United States.
Pinchot State Forest is a Pennsylvania State Forest in Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry District #11. The main offices are located in Lackawanna State Park in North Abington Township in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, in the United States.
Weiser State Forest is a Pennsylvania State Forest in Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry District #18. The main offices are located in Cressona in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania in the United States.
Loyalsock State Forest is a Pennsylvania state forest in Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry District #20. The forest spans across the northern tier's "Endless Mountains" and is a total of 114,552 acres (46,358 ha). The Loyalsock is a “working forest” and is managed for pure water, recreation, plant and animal habitats, sustainable timber, and natural gas.
Erie Bluffs State Park is a 587-acre (238 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Girard and Springfield Townships, Erie County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park is the largest undeveloped stretch of land overlooking Lake Erie in Pennsylvania. Erie Bluffs State Park is just north of Pennsylvania Route 5 near Lake City and 12 miles (19 km) west of Erie. It is one of Pennsylvania's newest state parks.
The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), established in 1995, is the agency in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania responsible for maintaining and preserving the state's 124 state parks and 20 state forests; providing information on the state's natural resources; and working with communities to benefit local recreation and natural areas. The agency has its headquarters in the Rachel Carson State Office Building in Harrisburg.
Plunketts Creek is an approximately 6.2-mile-long (10 km) tributary of Loyalsock Creek in Lycoming and Sullivan counties in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Two unincorporated villages and a hamlet are on the creek, and its watershed drains 23.6 square miles (61 km2) in parts of five townships. The creek is a part of the Chesapeake Bay drainage basin via Loyalsock Creek and the West Branch Susquehanna and Susquehanna Rivers.
Snyder-Middleswarth Natural Area is a 500 acre (202 ha) National Natural Landmark within Bald Eagle State Forest in Spring Township, Snyder County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It is named for two Pennsylvania politicians from Snyder County: Simon Snyder and Ner Alexander Middleswarth. It was formerly a Pennsylvania state park and was the only one in Snyder County, but lost its state park status in the mid 1990s.
Kettle Creek Gorge Natural Area is a 774-acre (313 ha) protected area in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Loyalsock State Forest.