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Ohiopyle State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on 20,500 acres (8,300 ha) in Dunbar, Henry Clay and Stewart Townships, Fayette County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The focal point of the park is the more than 14 miles (23 km) of the Youghiogheny River gorge that passes through the park. The river provides whitewater boating ...
Now a popular camping area and rest spot near Buena Vista, Pennsylvania. Connellsville trestles, 2 long bridges near Connellsville, Pennsylvania; Ohiopyle State Park, bisected by the Youghiogheny, the most popular whitewater destination on the east coast. Fallingwater, a national architectural landmark designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Located ...
Laurel Highlands. Coordinates: 40.241°N 79.239°W. Autumn on a small road in Somerset County. The Laurel Highlands is a region in southwestern Pennsylvania made up of Fayette County, Somerset County, and Westmoreland County. [1] It has a population of about 600,000 people. The region is approximately fifty-five miles southeast of Pittsburgh ...
Apr. 9—Crews on Friday continued to mop up hot spots from two forest fires at opposite ends of Ohiopyle State Park in Fayette County after they consumed nearly 500 acres of woodlands, according ...
Aug. 24—Jurors in a coroner's inquest examining an August 2022 rafting death on the Youghiogheny River in Ohiopyle recommended drastic changes Thursday in hopes of preventing future fatalities.
Middle Yough, from Confluence, Pennsylvania to Ohiopyle ; Ohiopyle Falls in Ohiopyle State Park: Previously, this spectacular 18-foot (5.5 m) waterfall was legal for kayakers and canoeists to run on only one weekend a year , during a race and festival. In August 2010, the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources announced a ...
Ferncliff Peninsula Natural Area. / 39.86756; -79.49823. Ferncliff Peninsula Natural Area is a 100-acre (40 ha) peninsula with a unique habitat with many rare and unusual, for Pennsylvania, plants. It is part of Ohiopyle State Park, near Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania. It was designated a National Natural Landmark in November 1973 and was named a State ...
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. Coordinates: 40°27′51.73″N 79°58′37.10″W. The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy ( WPC) is a private nonprofit conservation organization founded in 1932 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. WPC has contributed land to 12 state parks and conserved more than a quarter million acres of natural lands.