Town · Eagles Mere, Sullivan County
Eagles Mere
Victorian summer cottages and inns ring a clear mountain lake, with a footpath around the shore and, in winter, a toboggan slide onto the frozen lake.
Eagles Mere is a small Victorian resort village on a spring-fed lake high on the mountain plateau of Sullivan County, more than 2,000 feet above the sea. Wealthy Philadelphians began summering here in the 1880s, and its shaded streets of big wooden cottages, its little shopping street and its quiet have changed little since; people like to call it the town that time forgot. The lake and the path around it belong to the lake association, so plan on enjoying the water from the village.
In a cold enough winter, volunteers still build an ice toboggan slide that runs down a hill and out across the frozen lake, as they have on and off since 1904. The rest of the year the woods around make Eagles Mere a fine base for hiking: Worlds End State Park and the Loyalsock Trail are close by, and the waterfalls of Ricketts Glen are under an hour away.
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In and around Eagles Mere
State park · Forks Township, Sullivan County
Worlds End State Park
Loyalsock Creek snakes through a deep, twisting gorge here, with a creek swimming area beside CCC cabins, the rugged Loyalsock Trail and overlooks that draw crowds when the leaves turn.
Hiking trail · Shrewsbury Township, Sullivan County
Loyalsock Trail
Waterfalls, rock ledges and vistas line this nearly 60-mile footpath through Loyalsock State Forest and Worlds End State Park, which passes the creek's Haystacks boulders.
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State park · Colley Township, Sullivan County
Ricketts Glen State Park
The Falls Trail drops through two wooded glens past more than twenty named waterfalls, among them 94-foot Ganoga, under old-growth trees, with Lake Jean's beach and campground up top.
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Loyalsock Trail
Waterfalls, rock ledges and vistas line this nearly 60-mile footpath through Loyalsock State Forest and Worlds End State Park, which passes the creek's Haystacks boulders.
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Worlds End State Park
Loyalsock Creek snakes through a deep, twisting gorge here, with a creek swimming area beside CCC cabins, the rugged Loyalsock Trail and overlooks that draw crowds when the leaves turn.
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Loyalsock State Forest
Wild plateau country cut by Loyalsock Creek, with the rugged Loyalsock Trail, waterfall-filled glens and the High Knob Overlook's view across the Endless Mountains.