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You can hike around a lake in these Pennsylvania state parks
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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.