Where in Pa. and N.J. are you most likely to see cicadas? (MAP)
Updated May 06, 2021;
Posted May 06, 2021
A cicada nymph crawls up from a turret in the soil, Sunday, May 2, 2021, in Frederick, Maryland. The 17-year periodical cicadas of 2021 s Brood X will mostly come out at dusk to try to avoid everything that wants to eat them, squiggling out of holes in the ground. They’ll try to climb up trees or anything vertical.AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
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The 2021 emergence of the 17-year periodical cicadas in Brood X has begun in Tennessee and North Carolina.
It’s only a matter of time before they begin crawling from their underground burrows closer to the Lehigh Valley.
You can hike around a lake in these Pennsylvania state parks
Updated 6:30 AM;
Today 6:30 AM
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Most of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources’ state parks feature a lake. All of them have hiking trails. Many hold the potential for combining the two.
While a few state parks have individual trails that entirely encircle their lakes, many have trail and road systems that can be combined into a lake-circling route.
Maps of all these state parks showing the roads and trails can be found through DCNR’s Find A Park webpage:
Black Moshannon State Park, near Philipsburg – Around Black Moshannon Lake: Moss-Hanne Trail (2 boardwalk sections and plenty of wet areas), Beaver Road, Star Mill Trail, Beaver Road, Route 504 and West Side Road. About 12 miles; easy.
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Great winter hiking trails across Pennsylvania
Updated Feb 12, 2021;
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Here are 30 great spots for some cold-weather trekking.
Pennsylvania’s Trail of the Year for 2021, the 38-mile Delaware & Hudson Trail in Lackawanna, Susquehanna and Wayne counties, will appear on many lists of prime trails this year. Tracing the former corridor of the Delaware & Hudson Railway, which primarily carried anthracite coal out of the Lackawanna Valley during the second half of the 19th century, the D&H Trail is open to motorized and non-motorized users, including walkers, bikers, equestrians as well as snowmobilers.
And, in that same vein, the Trail of the Year in 2020 was the 46-mile Ghost Town Trail in Cambria and Indiana counties as Pennsylvania’s Trail of the Year. Launched in 1994 as a 12-mile segment, Ghost Town Trail was the first trail in the state constructed with transportation enhancement funding. An estimated 80,000 users each year enjoy the trail, which was designate