Delaware State Forest
97 Trails
88 POIs
2 Peaks
3 Campsites
Description
Delaware State Forest is a Pennsylvania state forest in Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry District #19. The main offices are located in Swiftwater in Monroe County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Delaware State Forest was formed as a direct result of the depletion of the forests of Pennsylvania that took place during the mid-to-late 19th century. Conservationists like Dr. Joseph Rothrock became concerned that the forests would not regrow if they were not managed properly. Lumber and Iron companies had harvested the old-growth forests for various reasons. The clear cut the forests and left behind nothing but dried tree tops and rotting stumps. The sparks of passing steam locomotives ignited wildfires that prevented the formation of second growth forests. The conservationists feared that the forest would never regrow if there was not a change in the philosophy of forest management. They called for the state to purchase land from the lumber and iron companies and the lumber and iron companies were more than willing to sell their land since that had depleted the natural resources of the forests.
Trails in the Hikepack map
- (overgrown, 2016-8-10)
- 1800 Trail
- Bald Eagle Trail
- Bear Wallow Trail
- Berm and Church Road
- BicyclePA Route Y
- BicyclePA Route Y1
- Big Dam Ridge Trail
- Boundary Trail
- Brown Trail
- Brown's Mill Road
- Bruce Lake Road
- Bruce Lake Trail
- Bruce Lake Trali, overgrown, 2016-8-10
- Burley Inlet Trail
- Creek Road
- Cross Cut Trail
- Egypt Meadow Trail
- Eqypt Meadow Trail
- Grand Army of the Republic Highway
- Hemlock Hill Trail
- Kleinhans Trail
- Lower Lake Trail
- Notch Road
- Old Shohola Road
- Overlook Trail
- Panther Swamp Trail
- Pine Trail
- Power Tower Trail
- Red Oak Trail
- Rhododendron Trail
- Rock Oak Ridge Trail
- Saw Creek Road
- Skytop Mount Trail
- Skyview Trail
- Sno Runner Trail
- Snow Shanty Trail
- Song Dog Trail
- Standing Stone Road
- T-317
- Telephone Trail
- Tree Tower Trail
- Trout Stream Trail
- Ve Tr
- Village Trail
- West Branch Bruce Lake Trai, overgrown, 2016-8-10
- White Birch Trail
- White Birches Trail
- Whitewater Trail
- Whittaker Tr
Attractions in the Hikepack map
- Bald Barren
- Bald Hill
- Bear Trap Mountain
- Belle Mountain
- Big Hill
- Blooming Grove
- Buckhorn Mountain
- Campbell's Shelter
- East Mountain
- Edgemere
- Frenchtown
- Friendly Acres
- Gates Hill
- Germantown
- Gold Key Lake
- Hemlock Farms
- High Knob
- Knights Eddy
- Lake Adventure Community Association
- Little Bald Hill
- Lords Valley
- Low Knob
- Madden Hill
- Maley Hill
- Melchris Wood
- Mongaup
- Mud Pond Mountain
- Park Office
- Parkers Glen
- Parking for Egypt Meadow Trail
- Pecks Pond
- Pine Flats
- Pine Hill
- Pines Camground
- Pond Eddy
- Promised Land
- Rock Hill
- Roemersville
- Sagamore Estates
- Sandyville
- Shohola Falls
- Sky View Lake
- Snow Hill
- Sunrise Lake
- Tamiment
- Tanglewood
- Tarburner Ridge
- Tarey Hill
- Timothy Lake North
- Trout Stream Trail
- Twin Lakes
- Twin Lakes Post Office (historical)
- Walker Lake
- West Hill
- What's this?
Copyright
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Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Aerial imagery available from the U.S. Geological Survey. Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©Nicholas https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Painter_Swamp.jpg CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).
