The Best in Tent Camping: Pennsylvania A Guide for Car Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos

by Willen, Matt

• ISBN13: 9780897326131
• ISBN10: 089732613X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-01
• Publisher: Menasha Ridge Pr

Summary

If you subscribe to the opinion that televisions, Japanese lanterns, and electric guitars are not essential camping equipment, The Best in Tent Camping: Pennsylvania should be your constant companion. Each campground profile includes: Detailed campground maps, Key information such as fees, restrictions, and facilities, Dates of operation, Driving directions to the campground and UTM coordinates for GPS users, Ratings for beauty, privacy, spaciousness, quiet, security, and cleanliness.

Author Biography

Matt Willen has lived in Pennsylvania for the past fifteen years, during which he has explored many of the state's hiking trails and kayaked many of its rivers. He is currently a professor at Elizabethtown College, where he teaches courses in professional writing. He lives on a farm outside of the town of Hershey.

Table of Contents

Pennsylvania Maps Key	p. vii
Pennsylvania Map	p. viii
Map Legend	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. x
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Northeast Pennsylvania	p. 5
Colton Point State Park	p. 6
Hills Creek State Park	p. 9
Hyner Run State Park	p. 12
Lackawanna State Park	p. 15
Leonard Harrison State Park	p. 18
Promised Land State Park: Deerfield Campground	p. 21
Promised Land State Park: Pickerel Point Campground	p. 24
Promised Land State Park: Pines Campground	p. 27
Ravensburg State Park	p. 30
Ricketts Glen State Park	p. 33
Salt Springs State Park	p. 36
Tobyhanna State Park	p. 39
Worlds End State Park	p. 42
Northwest Pennsylvania	p. 45
Beaver Meadows Campground	p. 46
Chapman State Park	p. 49
Clear Creek State Park	p. 52
Dewdrop Campground: Walk-in Tent Sites	p. 55
Hearts Content Campground	p. 58
Kiasutha Recreation Area: Indian Village Campground	p. 61
Loleta Recreation Area	p. 64
Minister Creek Campground	p. 67
Parker Dam State Park	p. 70
Sinnemahoning State Park	p. 73
Sizerville State Park	p. 76
Tionesta Lake: Recreation Area Campground	p. 79
Tracy Ridge Campground	p. 82
Twin Lakes Campground	p. 85
Southeast Pennsylvania	p. 89
Bald Eagle State Park: Primitive Campground	p. 90
Colonel Denning State Park	p. 93
Fowlers Hollow Campground	p. 96
French Creek State Park	p. 99
Gifford Pinchot State Park	p. 102
Greenwood Furnace State Park	p. 105
Hibernia County Park	p. 108
Hickory Run State Park	p. 111
Lancaster County Central Park: Mill Creek Campground	p. 114
Penn-Roosevelt State Park	p. 117
Pine Grove Furnace State Park: Charcoal Hearth Campground	p. 120
Poe Paddy State Park	p. 123
Poe Valley State Park	p. 126
Reeds Gap State Park	p. 129
Southwest Pennsylvania	p. 133
Black Moshannon State Park	p. 134
Blue Knob State Park	p. 137
Crooked Creek Lake Campground	p. 140
Keystone State Park	p. 143
Ohiopyle State Park: Kentuck Campground	p. 146
Raystown Lake: Susquehannock Campground	p. 149
Trough Creek State Park	p. 152
Tub Run Campground	p. 155
Youghiogheny Lake Outflow Campground	p. 158
Appendixes & Index	p. 161
Camping Equipment Checklist	p. 163
Sources of Information	p. 165
Suggested Reading and Reference	p. 167
Index	p. 169
About the Author	p. 176
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Excerpts

Colonel Denning State Park
The campground is divided into three loops, two of which are in the hollow along side of Doubling Gap Run. These loops offer small electric hookup sites with limited or no privacy but with the attraction of being very close to the creek (sites 1 through 5 are on the creek). If being near the creek is important to you then find a site in the first loop (1 through 12), since those in the second loop (more of a dead-end road) are right on top of one another.
The best sites are located on the third loop (19 through 52), which is just uphill from the lower sites. All of the sites are shaded and those on the outside of the loop are larger and more attractive than those on the loop's inside. These are all non-electric sites so you won't run into many RVs here. Sites 20 and 21 both have adequate room for a single tent and are perched on the edge of a hollow that forms a tributary to Doubling Gap Run. However, the tent space in 20 is a little more precariously perched than the other! Sites 22 and 24 are large, beautiful sites, which offer quite a bit of privacy and ease of access to water and the restrooms. Site 22 is especially attractive with a small stand of white pines just beyond it.

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