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PENNSYLVANIA WILDS OUTDOOR DISCOVERY ATLAS Canyon Grand - PA Gorge Pine Creek Pine Creek Valley Landscape pine Creek Valley & PA GRand CAnyon Landscape Pine Creek Rail Trail UNFORGETTABLE VIEWS If it’s your first visit to the region, the PA Grand Canyon is a must see and one of the perfect ways to orient your mind and senses to the wonders of the PA Wilds. But once you’ve delighted in the Pine Creek Gorge views, you’ll soon discover that this scenic and unique landscape is best discovered from multiple vantage points. To start, a journey on the Pine Creek Rail Trail will awaken your perspective to the dynamic topography. Named by USA Today as one of the “10 great places to take a bike tour,” the 62-mile Rail Trail can be explored by bike or foot, ski Band Rock Vista or snowshoe, with specially designated areas for horseback riding, all while hugging the creek offering up scenic natural surroundings. The Pine Creek Valley landscape is easy to explore by road trip with Scenic Route 6 connecting you to charming and traveler-friendly towns with accommodations like Wellsboro and college town Mansfield. Fuel up in advance before your Jersey Shore, journey along Rt. 414, a quintessential scenic drive with worthy stops like the trailside villages of Slate Run and Waterville, and renowned fishing areas along Mansfield, Pine Creek and its tributaries. North of Route 6, The Valley also boasts noteworthy northern excursions, like the 407-acre Hills Creek State Park. Slate Run, Waterville, Wellsboro, and more... 2 FOR MORE INFO VISIT: PAWilds.com/landscape/pine-creek-valley-pa-grand-canyon Toronto Mississauga London Hamilton Rochester Syracuse Buffalo Detroit Albany Ann Arbor PINE CREEK VALLEY Toledo Erie Plan your trip Our local tourism partners provide on-the-ground tips, maps, itineraries and more Cleveland Scranton CLINTON COUNTY VISITORS BUREAU LocatedNew on York the Citysouthwestern access point to the Pine Creek Valley & PA Grand Canyon, Clinton County Visitors Bureau offers visitor resources for Pittsburgh Clinton County, where more than half of the county’s acreage is state land pine Creek Valley available for public outdoor recreation. Columbus & PA GRand CAnyon ClintonCountyInfo.com | (570) 748-5782 212 N Jay St, Lock Haven, PA 17745 Philadelphia LYCOMING COUNTY VISITORS BUREAU Baltimore Located on the southeastern access point to the Pine Creek Valley & PA Grand Canyon, the Lycoming County Visitors Bureau provides traveler resources for Williamsport and beyond, including information about outdoor recreation on the renowned Pine Creek Rail Trail. WILDS TRAVEL TIP Washington DC VisitLycomingCounty.com | (570) 327-7700 Cell reception, 102 W 4th St, Williamsport, PA 17701 Gas Stations, VISIT POTTER-TIOGA Convenience services Are limited In this area Headquartered in Wellsboro, Visit Potter-Tioga provides traveler resources and itineraries for a two-county region that covers a vast portion of the Pine Creek Valley and PA Grand Canyon Landscape, Make sure to prepare accordingly! extending into the Dark Sky Landscape. VisitPotterTioga.com | 888-846-4228 2053 PA-660, Wellsboro, PA 16901 Pine Creek Gorge (a.k.a. PA GRand Canyon) PA WILDS OUTDOOR DISCOVERY ATLAS 3 PINE CREEK VALLEY - NORTHERN STATE PARKS & RECREATION AREAS* Riding ATV Biking Boating Boat Launch Kayaking/Canoe Fishing Swimming Hiking Camping Picnic Area Playground Pavilion XC Skiing Ice Skating Snowmobiling Sledding Equestrian Hunting Pets 1 Colton Point 927 Colton Road, Wellsboro, PA 16901 • • • • • • • • 2 Hills Creek 111 Spillway Road, Wellsboro, PA 16901 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 3 Leonard Harrison 4797 Route 660, Wellsboro, PA 16901 • • • • • • • • 4 Tioga-Hammond Lakes 710 Ives Run Lane, Tioga, PA 16946 • • • • • • • • • • 5 Cowanesque Lake Bliss Rd, Lawrenceville, PA 16929 • • • • • • • • Need a map of state parks, recreation areas, trails or more? Download one to your phone or mobile device - scan the QR Code on page 8 *Recreational areas are not managed by the DCNR. Find contact information for recreation areas in the Directory on page 53 RECREATIONAL TRAILS & BICYCLE ROUTES TOTAL MILES** LANDSCAPE HIGHLIGHTS 6 Mid State Trail 342.22 miles Tioga-Hammond Lakes Recreation Area 7 West Rim Trail 28.85 miles 8 Pine Creek Rail Trail 62.72 miles The Tioga-Hammond Lakes recreation area is the perfect place for a water enthusiast. With over 1,000 acres of surface water combined, it 9 Lambs Creek Rail Trail 3.82 miles is a popular spot for motorboats of all size and warm water fishing. 10 Railroad Grade Trail 2.6 miles There are many camping options, hiking and biking trails, picnic sites, boat launches and overnight mooring areas to enjoy G BicyclePA Route G 249.02 miles Y BicyclePA Route Y 385.14 miles CHECK OUT: SCENIC BYWAYS TOTAL MILES** PA grand Canyon 11 PA Route 6 Heritage Corridor 331 miles Located in the Tioga State Forest, the Pine Creek Gorge, a.k.a. the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania, stretches for over 45 miles **Total miles from terminus to terminus. Actual mileage covered per region varies. See trail map for full details with depths of nearly 1,500 feet. Colton Point and Leonard STATE FORESTRY OFFICE Harrison State Parks provide “Must See” vistas. Tioga One Nessmuk Lane, Wellsboro, PA 16901 FOR MORE INFO VISIT: PAWilds.com/asset/pennsylvania-grand-canyon 4 PAWilds.com Alfred Hornby 13 Thurston Campbell 41 Post Creek Pine 224 Valley Swartwood Risingville Cameron Sp encer South Canisteo 42 14 414 Erin Van Etten Cameron Mills Breesport 21 Coopers Plains 415 223 Ca 52 13 n 43 46 Andover i 248 s t Painted Post 34 36 e 49 51 Horseheads Halsey Valley 417 o Corning 17 50 15 14 Rathbone 352 Gibson Big Greenwood Elmira Hicks 417 C Flats 17 Jasper 48 he Heights Erwins 47 m 248 86 un 352 Elmira River Addison 225 g Independence Lockwood Rexville Woodhull Presho River 248 417 225 36 Tioga Center Southport Barton 0 5 10 15 MILES Freeman 427 6 12 18 24 KILOMETERS 15 PA WILDSC a-t oOUTDOORn DISCOVERY ATLAS 34 17C 328 Lowman Whitesville Troup77ºsbu 30’rg 77º 15’ to New York 77º 00’ PINE CREEK VALLEY Lindley Cr Webbs Mills Chemung 14 367 Waverly 17 42º 00’ 427 Seeley Creek Wellsburg Genesee River Lawrenceville 328 South Fassett South Waverly 42º 00’ Austinburg Nelson Osceola Millerton Wilawana North North Brookfield Mosherville Sayre River 249 49 287 Sayre Bingham Fork 49 Elkland 328 Seely 14 Centerville Litchfield Knoxville Tioga Jct Trowbridge Jackson Gillett C Athens Mills Harrison Academy COWANESQUE 328 Summit Daggett r Bentley Creek 199 que Corners West Bingham Valley anes LAKE (5) Greens Landing Cow Jobs TIOGA− Corners Susquehanna 49 Cowanesque Cr 49 Elmer HAMMOND 239Wolcot LAKES (4) Tioga ? t Westfield Hammond 549 123 Milan Ulysses Potter Reservoir Brook 37 Big Pond 349 Tioga Reservoir Snedekerville 220 249 Railroad Grade Trail (10) Ghent Newfield Sabinsville 249 15 East Smithfield Little Springfield orks F Marsh Holliday Roseville Raymond Keeneyville Lambs Creek Austinville Sheshequin Loucks 37 Ulster Mills Beechwood Rail Trail (9) Lake Middlebury Columbia Brookland Sunderlinville BUS Leona B RADF O R D Niles Valley Center HILLS 549 Cross CREEK (2) 15 Wetona PA BLACK ASH Roads 14 SWAMP MT LUMBER 449 Dark Skies Landscape 287 Mansfield PISGAH North MUSEUM TIOGA 6 Sugar PA Route 6 Sylvania Towanda ASAPH RUN 313 6 Genesee 208 Heritage Corridor (11) Troy East Burlington Wysox Canoe 289 DENTON a Troy Luthers Mills 64 349 6 g Camp Mainesburg 660 41º 45’ o eek HILL West i Cr Gaines T Pike 64 6 Ansonia 660 West Burlington Towanda Macedonia P Creek Wellsboro Covington LYMAN 41º 45’ ine 514 RUN Watrous 208 660 Cherry Flats Granville Galeton 362 Summit Granville Center COLTON 14 Monroeton POINT (1) GRAND CANYON 287 Franklindale Marshlands OF PENNSYLVANIA Alba 514 414 PATTERSON Germania Powell Station West Franklin P O TTE R 144 LEONARD HARRISON (3) Blossburg Fallbrook COUNTY Le Roy k Stony Fork BRIDGE Cree East 36 k 220 ee Knapp Morris r Canton r P e Draper Riv 414 a C i TIOGA Arnot Run and 12 n South Branch k Tow S Germania e STATE FOREST ee 36 U r 15 335 Canton 36 S C Q Tiadaghton 414 CHERRY U BRADLEY Mid-State Trail (6) 154 E Pine Creek Rail Trail (8) Gleason SPRINGS H WALES Antrim 14 der A Carter Camp ra N 268 Ogdensburg Sch N Grover Cr O k ee C 44 ee k Sebring 36 New Albany K r West Rim Trail (7) C 12 Morris Eastpoint Hartfield REYNOLDS b 414 Roaring Branch Wheelerville Overton SPRING 414 eek Bab 287 Liberty Cr DEVILS ELBOW Blackwell 414 Oleona k Nauvoo Cree McINTYRE WILD AREA OLE BULL 14 Shunk 44 ALGERINE SWAMP Ellenton 154 Dushore e Lincoln Falls ettl Cedar Run Millview 87 K ALGERINE77º 30’ SKI 77º 15’ to page 7 77º 00’Ralston eek WILD AREA SAWMILL Estella Little Loyalsock Cr ATLAS ICON KEY - can be found on the cover fold-out or page 9 Forksville Cherry Mills HI Buttonwood g 68 n 5 WORLDS END G mi H 87 TAMARACK RUN W eek Cross Fork 75 284 A LycoLOYALSOCK Cr Loyal Slate Run Y TRAIL 154 sock IL A WOLF RUN Steam Valley STATE FOREST Hillsgrove R WILD AREA e T 75 S ULLIV A N in P PINE CREEK VALLEY - SOUTHERN STATE PARKS Riding ATV Biking Boating Boat Launch Kayaking/Canoe Fishing Swimming Hiking Camping Picnic Area Playground Pavilion XC Skiing Ice Skating Snowmobiling Sledding Equestrian Hunting Pets 1 Little Pine 4205 Little Pine Creek Road, Waterville, PA 17776 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Need a map of state parks, recreation areas, trails or more? Download one to your phone or mobile device - scan the QR Code on page 8 RECREATIONAL TRAILS & BICYCLE ROUTES TOTAL MILES* LANDSCAPE HIGHLIGHTS 2 Midstate Trail 342.22 miles Tiadaghton State Forest 3 Golden Eagle Trail 9.08 miles Resource Management Center 4 Pine Creek Water Trail 42.58 miles Orient yourself to the region and the 146,539-acre Tiadaghton State 5 Pine Creek Rail Trail 62.72 miles Forest at the Tiadaghton State Forest Resource Management Center.
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  • The STC 50Th Anniversary

    The STC 50Th Anniversary

    Fall/Winter 2017 The STC 50th Anniversary By Wanda Shirk A five-mile hike on a perfect October afternoon preceded The Susquehannock Trail Club (STC) is now an official the evening program. Eight hikers-- Wayne Baumann, quinquagenarian! Five decades ago, the Constitution of Bob Bernhardy, Pat Childs, Mike Knowlton, Janet Long, the club was approved unanimously by 19 charter mem- Ginny Musser, Valorie Patillo, and Wanda Shirk—left the bers on October 18, 1967. Fifty years later to the day, on lodge at 2 PM hiking up the Billy Brown Trail, across the Wednesday, October 18, 2017, current club members Ridge Trail segment of the STS. The hikers returned to gathered at the same location to commemorate the club’s the lodge by 4:30 PM via the Wil and Betty Ahn Trail. founding, and to celebrate five decades of maintaining the Back at the lodge, four other members were busily en- Susquehannock Trail System (STS) and its associated link gaged. Helen Bernhardy created a photo board, Penny trails and crossover trails. Weinhold decorated the tables and dining area, Curt Fifty-eight members attended the celebration at the Sus- Weinhold set up a 14-minute slide show which ran contin- quehannock Lodge, including 53 who packed the dining uously on a 28-inch computer screen throughout the even- room to enjoy excellent prime rib, salmon, or stuffed pork ing, and Lois Morey displayed the club’s array of maps, chops, and four more members who prepared and served guidebooks, patches, shirts, and jackets, along with some the meal—and washed the dishes! Valorie Patillo, Chuck historical materials.