Explorer's Guide 50 Hikes in Central Pennsylvania Day Hikes and Backpacking Trips

by Thwaites, Tom

• ISBN13: 9780881504750
• ISBN10: 0881504750
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-17
• Publisher: Countryman Press

Summary

Veteran trailblazer and outdoor activist Tom Thwaites, the author of two other 50 Hikes guides to Pennsylvania, has completely revised and updated this guide to the central portion of Penn's Woods. Roughly bound by US Routes 219 and 15, this lightly traveled region of wild country and wildlife offers a vast network of maintained trail systems.

Author Biography

Tom Thwaites was for 29 years the advisor to the hiking division of the Penn State Outing Club. An ardent trail builder and maintainer, he is a past president of the Mid State Trail Association, an active member of the Keystone Trails Association, and has personally scouted, blazed, and cleared many of the trails in this guide

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	13	(1)
Introduction	14	(9)
South District
Path Valley Railroad Tunnel	23	(3)
Cowans Gap State Park	26	(3)
Tuscarora Ridge Trail	29	(3)
Terrace Mountain Trail	32	(3)
Little Buffalo State Park	35	(3)
Maple Run Trail	38	(3)
Old Loggers Trail	41	(3)
Trough Creek State Park	44	(4)
Flat Rock	48	(4)
Meadow Grounds Lake	52	(3)
Iron Horse Trail	55	(4)
Lower Trail	59	(4)
John P. Saylor Trail	63	(7)
Middle District
Alan Seeger Trail	70	(4)
Big Valley Vista	74	(4)
Snyder Middleswarth State Park	78	(3)
Allegheny Front Trail	81	(3)
Fred Woods Trail	84	(3)
Benner Run	87	(3)
Wykoff Run Natural Area	90	(4)
Jackson Trail	94	(4)
Thousand Steps	98	(5)
Yost Run	103	(3)
Eddy Lick Run	106	(4)
Hook Natural Area	110	(4)
Cherry Run Gamelands	114	(4)
Black Moshannon State Park	118	(4)
Rock Run Trail	122	(6)
Northern District
Bob Webber Trail	128	(3)
Gillespie Point	131	(3)
Forrest H. Dutlinger Natural Area	134	(4)
Haystacks	138	(3)
Smiths Knob	141	(4)
Loyalsock Trail	145	(3)
Sand Run Falls	148	(3)
Lynn Keller Trail	151	(4)
Baldwin Point	155	(3)
West Rim Trail	158	(4)
Splash Dam Hollow	162	(3)
Bucktail Path	165	(2)
Bohen Run Falls	167	(3)
Golden Eagle Trail	170	(4)
Pine Trail and Hemlock Mountain	174	(4)
Black Forest Trail	178	(3)
Hammersley Wild Area	181	(7)
Backpacking Trips
Worlds End State Park	188	(5)
Hyner Run to Ole Bull	193	(4)
Old Loggers Path	197	(6)
Mid State Trail	203	(6)
Quehanna Trail	209	(8)
Index	217