State park · Napier Township, Bedford County
Shawnee State Park
Campers, boaters, anglers and hikers have plenty of room to spread out around a big lake with a sandy beach, in the ridges along the old Lincoln Highway.
What you will find
- Hiking trails
- Biking
- Mountain biking
- Cross-country skiing
- Camping
- Cabins or shelters
- Swimming
- Beach
- Boat launch
- Canoe and kayak launch
- Fishing
- Picnic areas
- Wildlife and bird watching
- Scenic views
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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Old Bedford Village
A re-created village of log and frame buildings where costumed interpreters demonstrate frontier trades and daily life of the 1700s and 1800s.
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Bedford
A Lincoln Highway county seat with 18th- and 19th-century buildings, the house where Washington stayed during the Whiskey Rebellion, covered bridges nearby and a grand old mineral-springs resort.
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Fort Bedford Museum
A replica log blockhouse built in 1958 holds artifacts of the 1758 fort and life along the Forbes Road, from muskets to an 1814 Conestoga wagon.
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Flight 93 National Memorial
A memorial on the field where Flight 93 came down on September 11, 2001, with a visitor center overlooking the crash site, a wall of names and the 93-foot Tower of Voices.
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Gallitzin State Forest
Mountain woodland named for Demetrius Gallitzin, the frontier priest of the Alleghenies, where the John P. Saylor Trail loops through the rugged backcountry of the Clear Shade Wild Area.
