Outdoor Recreation

March 8, 2018

Nature offers healing and hope, even in winter | Pennsylvania Wilds

PA Wilds Contributor Beth Jones, a certified Nature and Forest Therapy guide and hiking and backpacking guide in North Central PA in the Pennsylvania Wilds has over 20 years’ experience leading hiking and backpacking excursions in the region and is passionate about the power of wilderness to help people recover greater health, peace, creativity and vision. In this blog, she talks about the health benefits of being outdoors and how it can help people overcome the winter blues.

March 1, 2018

A man, his dog, and their quest — to visit every state park in Pennsylvania

Dale Yohe and his dog, S’mores, love the PA Wilds — and this Instagram-famous adventure duo has set out to visit every Pennsylvania State Park. PA Wilds Contributor Katie Weidenboerner recently caught up with Dale and learned more about their experiences.

February 19, 2018

Black Moshannon State Park: Where Convenience Meets Country

PA Wilds Center outreach specialist LaKeshia Knarr has set a goal to see all 29 state parks in the Pennsylvania Wilds. She hopes to share her experiences in a series of articles highlighting some of the unique features and activities at each of the parks. In this post - the first of the series - she talks about her experience at Black Moshannon State Park, located along the I-80 Corridor.

January 18, 2018

2017 Hunting Season Reflections – the Vital Role of Hunters and Anglers in Conservation

As hunters across the Pennsylvania Wilds look forward to Spring Gobbler Season, we compiled some reflections from seasoned hunters and anglers on the vital role they play in stewardship and conservation of our precious lands, waterways and wildlife.

January 15, 2018

Hike the North Country Trail and Earn Patches

Are you looking for a New Year’s fitness resolution? Here’s a fun way to increase your fitness and trail miles.

Surviving Clinton County’s mountain epic

This year, The Frozen Snot trail race will take place January 27, 2018, in McElhattan, PA (Clinton County). Katie Weidenboerner, PA Wilds Center Guest Writer, participated in the event in 2017 and here shares her experience with us.

December 5, 2017

Behind the Scenes: Building Public Trails

Learn about the Pennsylvania Outdoor Corps - A Modern Day CCC Effort: Digging trenches, diverting natural mountain runoff, building benches, stabilizing handrails, constructing stairways … these necessary, but often behind-the-scenes tasks on public lands are sometimes taken for granted. The work is never finished, as foot traffic and natural elements impact the landscape. Such duties were divvied out to some hard-working teens and young adults this year on parks across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

August 31, 2017

My PA Wilds… Birding and Nature Photography

Outdoor enthusiast Don Mroczkowski shares his passion for nature photography and bird watching in the Pennsylvania Wilds

July 17, 2017

PA Wilds Fishing Tales from Angler Nick Lyter

"What does Fishing in the Pennsylvania Wilds Mean to You?" a viewpoint from angler Nick Lyter, who averages 250 days per year fishing the trout waters of the Pennsylvania Wilds and Central Pennsylvania

June 1, 2017

10 PA Wilds trail races not to be missed

Nothing can test or inspire quite like brutal and beautiful (brutiful, if you will) landscapes of the Pennsylvania Wilds. Trail runners here are grateful for the gifts that nature has provided us and use them as a playground for some of the greatest races in the state — and the country.