State forest · Thornhurst Township, Lackawanna County
Pinchot State Forest
Named for conservationist Gifford Pinchot, these northeastern tracts include the Pinchot Trail, a long loop through boggy plateau woods, hardwoods and laurel thickets.
What you will find
- Hiking trails
- Camping
- Fishing
Hunting is permitted here in season. Check the state hunting calendar and wear blaze orange in fall and winter.
Make a day of it
Nearby
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Gouldsboro State Park
A sandy beach and a broad lake surrounded by the scrubby woods and wetlands of the Pocono Plateau, with a trail through the forest to neighboring Tobyhanna State Park.
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Tobyhanna State Park
Wetlands and scrub forest of the Pocono Plateau surround a lake with a sandy beach, a campground and a level trail around its shore, linked by trail to Gouldsboro State Park.
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Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art
Founded in 1908 in Nay Aug Park, this museum of natural history, science and art shows dinosaurs, birds, Dorflinger glass and folk art.
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Steamtown National Historic Site
A historic rail yard where steam locomotives fill a working roundhouse, with museums of railroading and a Union Pacific Big Boy among the giants on display.
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Electric City Trolley Museum
Restored trolleys and exhibits on electric streetcar history, with rides that roll past the old iron furnaces and through a nearly mile-long tunnel.
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Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum
The story of the immigrants who mined anthracite coal and worked in the region's mills and factories, from church and home to company store, in McDade Park.
