List of Pennsylvania state forests
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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] |
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| 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] | Formerly named Lackawanna State Forest | |
| 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] |
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| 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 |
Former state forests
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 |
