List of Pennsylvania state forests

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.

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State Forest Name	County	Area acres (ha)	Founded	Remarks
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	200,000 acres (80,940 ha)	1900
Forbes	Fayette, Somerset, & Westmoreland	over 50,000 acres (20,230 ha)
Gallitzin	Bedford, Cambria, Indiana, & Somerset	24,370 acres (9,862 ha)^[7]	1916
Loyalsock	Bradford, Lycoming, & Sullivan	114,552 acres (46,360 ha)	July 1, 2005	Replaced Wyoming State Forest
Michaux	Adams, Cumberland, & Franklin	over 85,000 acres (34,400 ha)
Moshannon	Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, & Elk	190,031 acres (76,903 ha)	1898
Pinchot	Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne, & Wyoming	44,743 acres (18,107 ha)
Rothrock	Centre, Huntingdon, & Mifflin	215,500 acres (87,210 ha)
Sproul	Cameron, Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, & Potter	280,000 acres (113,310 ha)	1898
Susquehannock	Clinton, McKean, & Potter	265,000 acres (107,242 ha)
Tiadaghton	Clinton, Lycoming, Potter, Tioga, & Union	215,500 acres (87,210 ha)
Tioga	Bradford, Lycoming, & Tioga	160,000 acres (64,750 ha)	1900
Tuscarora	Cumberland, Franklin, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, & Perry	91,165 acres (36,893 ha)
Weiser	Carbon, Columbia, Dauphin, Northumberland, & Schuylkill	17,961 acres (7,269 ha)
William Penn	Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, & Lancaster	812 acres (329 ha)	January 1935, as Valley Forge State Forest,	August 2007, became William Penn State Forest

Former State Forests

State Forest Name	County	Area acres (ha)	Founded	Remarks
Wyoming	Sullivan			July 2005, became Loyalsock State Forest

Former Names of State Forests

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)		August 2015, renamed Pinchot State Forest

References

^ "Bald Eagle State Forest". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
^ "Bald Eagle State Forest" (PDF). PA DCNR. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
^ "Buchanan State Forest". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
^ "Clear Creek State Forest". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
^ "Cornplanter State Forest". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
^ "Pennsylvania's Delaware State Forest Grows by 555 Acres". The Conservation Fund. 2023-06-26. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
^ "Gallitzin State Forest". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources. Retrieved 2023-06-29.

External links

Lists of state forests by U.S. state

Insular areas

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Protected areas of Pennsylvania

Federal

NPS National Historical Parks & National Historic Sites	Allegheny Portage Railroad NHS Edgar Allan Poe NHS Eisenhower NHS First State NHP 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 Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Lackawanna Heritage Valley National and State Heritage Area Lower Delaware National Wild and Scenic River Middle Delaware National Scenic River Susquehanna National Heritage Area Tionesta Scenic Area Tionesta Wild Area 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

Natural Areas	Alan Seeger Algerine Run Anders Run Bark Cabin Bear Meadows Bear Run Beartown Woods Big Flat Laurel Black Ash Swamp Bruce Lake Buckhorn Carbaugh Run Charles F. Lewis Cranberry Swamp David R. Johnson Detweiler Run Devil’s Elbow East Branch Swamp Forrest H. Dutlinger Frank E. Masland Halfway Run Hemlocks The Hook Hoverter and Sholl Box Huckleberry Jakey Hollow Johnson Run Joyce Kilmer Kettle Creek Gorge Lebo Red Pine Little Juniata Little Mud Pond Swamp Little Tinicum Island Lower Jerry Run Marion Brooks M.K. Goddard/Wykoff Run Meeting of the Pines Miller Run Mt. Cydonia Ponds Mt. Davis Mt. Logan Pennel Run Pine Creek Gorge Pine Lake Pine Ridge Pine Tree Trail Reynolds Spring Roaring Run Rocky Ridge Rosencrans Bog Ruth Zimmerman Sheets Island Archipelago Snyder-Middleswarth Spruce Swamp Stillwater Sweet Root Tall Timbers Tamarack Run Tamarack Swamp Torbert Island
State Parks	Allegheny Islands Archbald Pothole Bald Eagle Beltzville Bendigo Benjamin Rush Big Elk Creek 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 Susquehanna Riverlands Susquehannock Swatara Tobyhanna Trough Creek Tuscarora Tyler Upper Pine Bottom Varden Vosburg Neck 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
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
State Game Lands	12 13 14 24 25 26 28 29 30 31 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 179 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 335
Wild areas	Algerine Asaph Burns Run Clear Shade Hammersley James C. Nelson Kettle Creek Russell P. Letterman Martin Hill McIntyre Penns Creek Quebec Run Quehanna Russell P. Letterman Square Timber Stairway Thickhead Mountain Trough Creek Wolf Run
Other	Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail Mohn Mill Ponds Wild Plant Sanctuary Stone Valley Recreation Area