List of Pennsylvania state forest wild areas

There are 16 wild areas in the Pennsylvania state forests.^[1] There is also one proposed wild area: M. K. Goddard Wild Area in Sproul State Forest in Clinton County, named for Maurice K. Goddard.^[2]

Wild area name	State forest	County or counties	Area in acres (ha)	Date founded	Remarks
Algerine Wild Area	Tiadaghton	Lycoming	3,700 acres (1,497 ha)	?	Borders the Algerine Swamp Natural Area and crossed by the Black Forest Trail^[3]
Asaph Wild Area	Tioga	Tioga	2,070 acres (838 ha)	?	Located at the north end of the Pine Creek Gorge^[4]
Burns Run Wild Area	Sproul	Clinton	2,408.33 acres (974.62 ha)^[5]	?	The Chuck Keiper Trail crosses this wild area^[2]^[6]^[7]
Clear Shade Wild Area	Gallitzin	Somerset	2,791 acres (1,129 ha)	?	^[8]
Hammersley Wild Area	Susquehannock	Clinton and Potter	30,253 acres (12,243 ha)	2004	Largest area without a road in Pennsylvania^[9]
Kettle Creek Wild Area	Loyalsock	Sullivan	1,791.81 acres (725.12 ha)^[10]	?	Surrounds the Kettle Creek Gorge Natural Area^[11]^[12]
Russell P. Letterman Wild Area	Sproul	Clinton	4,849.94 acres (1,962.70 ha)^[5]	?	The Chuck Keiper Trail crosses this wild area, which used to be named Fish Dam Wild Area^[2]^[6]^[7]
Martin Hill Wild Area	Buchanan	Bedford	11,500 acres (4,654 ha)	?	Home to bobcat, black bear, and rattlesnakes^[13]
McIntyre Wild Area	Loyalsock	Lycoming	7,500 acres (3,035 ha)	?	Has the remnants of a ghost town^[14]
Quebec Run Wild Area	Forbes	Fayette	7,441 acres (3,011 ha)	2004	One of the two newest wild areas in Pennsylvania^[9]^[15]
Quehanna Wild Area	Elk and Moshannon	Cameron, Clearfield, and Elk	48,186 acres (19,500 ha)	1966	Largest wild area in Pennsylvania^[16]^[17]
Thickhead Mountain Wild Area	Rothrock	Centre and Huntingdon	4,886 acres (1,977 ha)	?	Completely surrounds the Detweiler Run and Bear Meadows Natural Areas^[18]
Trough Creek Wild Area	Rothrock	Huntingdon	1,703 acres (689 ha)	?	Above Raystown Lake^[18]
Tuscarora Wild Area	Tuscarora	Juniata and Perry	5,382 acres (2,178 ha)	?	Forest last cut between 1902 and 1917^[19]
White Mountain Wild Area	Bald Eagle	Mifflin and Union	3,581 acres (1,449 ha)	?	Can only be accessed off the Mid State Trail^[20]
Wolf Run Wild Area	Tiadaghton	Lycoming	6,900 acres (2,792 ha)	?	Crossed by the Golden Eagle Trail^[3]

References

↑ Klyza, Christopher McGrory (2001). Wilderness comes home: rewilding the Northeast. Hanover, New Hampshire: Middlebury College Press / University Press of New England. p. 86. ISBN 1-58465-101-6.
1 2 3 Sproul State Forest (PDF) (Map). 1 inch = 2 miles. Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
1 2 "Natural & Wild Areas near the Tiadaghton State Forest". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
↑ "Natural & Wild Areas near the Tioga State Forest". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
1 2 "Site #30-Southern Sproul State Forest". Pennsylvania Audubon Society. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
1 2 "Proposed Natural/Old-growth Area, Sproul State Forest". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Retrieved 2010-03-01. Note: This refers to Russell P. Letterman Wild Area by its former name, Fish Dam Wild Area
1 2 "Pennsylvania Wilds: Chuck Keiper Trail". Pennsylvania. Retrieved 2010-03-01. Note: This mistakenly calls Burns Run Wild Area "Burns Wild Area" and refers to Russell P. Letterman Wild Area by its former name, Fish Dam Wild Area.
↑ "John P. Saylor Trail". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Missing or empty |url= (help); |access-date= requires |url= (help)
1 2 "The Resource: Hammersley Wild Area becomes official". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. January 2004. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
↑ "Site #42-Wyoming State Forest & World's End State Park". Pennsylvania Audubon Society. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
↑ Loyalsock State Forest (PDF) (Map). 1 inch = 2 miles. Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
↑ Thornbloom, Gary. "Kettle Creek Natural and Wild Areas via the Loyalsock Trail" (PDF). Pennsylvania Sierra Club.
↑ "Natural & Wild Areas near Buchanan State Forest". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
↑ "Natural & Wild Areas near Loyalsock State Forest". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
↑ "Quebec Run Wild Area" (PDF). Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
↑ "Quehanna Wild Area, Wykoff Run Natural Area". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
↑ "Natural & Wild Areas near the Elk State Forest". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
1 2 "Natural & Wild Areas near the Rothrock State Forest". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
↑ "Natural & Wild Areas near the Tuscarora State Forest". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
↑ "Natural and Wild Areas of the Bald Eagle State Forest". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Retrieved 2010-03-01.

External links

DCNR State Forest Wild Area map

Protected areas of Pennsylvania

Federal

NPS National Historical Parks & National Historic Sites	Allegheny Portage Railroad NHS Edgar Allan Poe NHS Eisenhower NHS Friendship Hill NHS Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church NHS Hopewell Furnace NHS Independence NHP Steamtown NHS Valley Forge NHP

National Memorials	Benjamin Franklin Flight 93 Johnstown Flood Thaddeus Kosciuszko

National Battlefields and National Military Parks	Fort Necessity NB Gettysburg NMP

National Trails	Appalachian Trail

Other protected areas	Allegheny National Recreation Area Blue Marsh National Recreation Area Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Lackawanna Heritage Valley National and State Heritage Area Middle Delaware National Scenic River Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River

National Forests	Allegheny

USFS National Historic Sites	Grey Towers

National Wildlife Refuges	Cherry Valley Erie John Heinz Ohio River Islands

State

State Parks	Allegheny Islands Archbald Pothole Bald Eagle Beltzville Bendigo Benjamin Rush Big Pocono Big Spring Black Moshannon Blue Knob Boyd Big Tree Buchanan's Birthplace Bucktail Caledonia Canoe Creek Chapman Cherry Springs Clear Creek Codorus Colonel Denning Colton Point Cook Forest Cowans Gap Delaware Canal Denton Hill Elk Erie Bluffs Evansburg Fort Washington Fowlers Hollow Frances Slocum French Creek Gifford Pinchot Gouldsboro Greenwood Furnace Hickory Run Hillman Hills Creek Hyner Run Hyner View Jacobsburg Jennings Joseph E. Ibberson Kettle Creek Keystone Kings Gap Kinzua Bridge Kooser Lackawanna Laurel Hill Laurel Mountain Laurel Ridge Laurel Summit Lehigh Gorge Leonard Harrison Linn Run Little Buffalo Little Pine Locust Lake Lyman Run Marsh Creek Maurice K. Goddard McCalls Dam McConnells Mill Memorial Lake Milton Mont Alto Moraine Mt. Pisgah Nescopeck Neshaminy Nockamixon Nolde Forest Norristown Farm Ohiopyle Oil Creek Ole Bull Parker Dam Patterson Penn-Roosevelt Pine Grove Furnace Poe Paddy Poe Valley Point Presque Isle Prince Gallitzin Promised Land Prompton Prouty Place Pymatuning R. B. Winter Raccoon Creek Ralph Stover Ravensburg Reeds Gap Ricketts Glen Ridley Creek Ryerson Station S. B. Elliott Salt Springs Samuel S. Lewis Sand Bridge Shawnee Shikellamy Sinnemahoning Sizerville Susquehanna Susquehannock Swatara Tobyhanna Trough Creek Tuscarora Tyler Upper Pine Bottom Varden Warriors Path Washington Crossing Whipple Dam White Clay Creek Worlds End Yellow Creek

State Forests	Bald Eagle Buchanan Clear Creek Cornplanter Delaware Elk Forbes Gallitzin Loyalsock Michaux Moshannon Pinchot Rothrock Sproul Susquehannock Tiadaghton Tioga Tuscarora Weiser William Penn (Wild areas)

Scenic Rivers	Bear Run French Creek Lehigh River LeTort Spring Run Lick Run Lower Brandywine Octoraro Creek Pine Creek Schuylkill River Stony Creek Tucquan Creek Tulpehocken Creek Yellow Breeches Creek

Other

Other	Anders Run Natural Area Forrest H. Duttlinger Natural Area Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Hoverter and Sholl Box Huckleberry Natural Area Johnson Run Natural Area Stone Valley Recreation Area Trexler Nature Preserve Wykoff Run Natural Area

Hiking trails	Appalachian Baker Black Forest Central Mountains Shared Use Darlington Eastern Continental Five Star Glacier Ridge Great Eastern Greene River Horse-Shoe Indian Creek Valley Loyalsock Mid State Standing Stone Mason-Dixon North Country Ohio River Old Loggers Path Pinchot Potomac Heritage Quehanna Rachel Carson Sheepskin Susquehannock Thunder Swamp Tuscarora Valley Forge Historical West Rim Wissahickon Youghiogheny River

Rail trails	Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike Beaver River East Coast Greenway Five Star Ghost Town Great Allegheny Passage Great Shamokin Path Greene River Indian Creek Valley Lebanon Valley Lehigh Gorge Liberty Bell Lower Montour Ohio River Palmer Bikeway Panhandle Perkiomen Pine Creek Plainfield Township Schuylkill River Sheepskin Struble Susquehanna Warrior Switchback Three Rivers Heritage York Country Heritage Youghiogheny River

Nature centers	List of nature centers in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

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