State park · Clinton Township, Wayne County

Prompton State Park

Prompton State Park: Not yet developed by DCNR
Photo: Clint, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Mountain bikers and hikers have a long web of wooded trails around this quiet flood-control lake on the West Branch Lackawaxen River, where anglers and paddlers launch small boats.

What you will find

  • Hiking trails
  • Mountain biking
  • Cross-country skiing
  • Boat launch
  • Canoe and kayak launch
  • Fishing
  • Picnic areas

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

  • Varden Conservation Area

    Conservation area · 9 miles away

    Former farmland given to the state by a local veterinarian, with easy trails through meadows and woods, a fishing pond and rows of conifers the donor planted himself.

  • Archbald Pothole State Park

    State park · 14 miles away

    A glacial pothole 38 feet deep, drilled into the bedrock by swirling meltwater and stones at the end of the Ice Age and uncovered by coal miners in 1884.