State Park Location Maps:
(click here to zoom and navigate local map)
(click here to zoom and navigate regional map)
View TOPO Maps!
Get directions to this park:
State Park Photo Gallery:
volunteer positions open
State Park Event Calendar:
volunteer positions open
Nearby Parks:
Parker Dam State Park
Curwensville State Park
State Fish Lands
Elk State Forest
|
| State Park Overview: |
 | The 318-acre S. B. Elliott State Park is in the heart of the Moshannon State Forest. This entirely wooded park offers picturesque areas of forest and swamp meadows and typical second growth mixed hardwood and oak timber. |
| Reviews By Park Visitors: |
| Be the 1st to Review S B Elliott State Park. You can rate it, post a comment on it, or do both. |
| |
| Camping: |
| Camping: rustic sites
A 25-site camping area, across from the log cabin park office, offers modern restrooms but no showers and a sanitary dump station. The maximum stay in this area is 14 days during the summer season and 21 days in spring and fall. The restroom and site seven are accessible. The campground is open from the second Friday in April to late December. All sites are first-come, first-served. |
| Trails: |
| Hiking: 3 miles of trails
Hiking trails take visitors to various places on the mountaintop while backpack hikers can get on the Quehanna Trail by way of the Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company Trail. The Quehanna Trail system offers over 75 miles of hiking in various combinations from one overnight to seven overnights without retracing your steps by way of its northern and southern loops and connecting trails. This trail also connects onto the Susquehannock Trail system above the community of Sinnemahoning.
Snowmobiling:
During the winter months, the main parking lot is plowed to allow registered snowmobiles to unload and operate on the roads and trails in the Moshannon State Forest. A map of the roads and trails open to snowmobiling is available at the park office. Snowmobiles may be operated on designated trails and roads from the day following the last deer season in December until April 1, weather permitting. |
| Trail Accessories: |
|
|
| Picnicking: |
| Picnicking amidst towering pines and oak trees, with ample parking, tables and picnic pavilions, is a treat for the whole family. Drinking water, garbage and recycling containers and composting restrooms are available throughout the park. |
| Fishing and Hunting: |
| Fishing:
Fishing in small mountain streams surrounding the park offers sport for those who like to walk and fish in uncrowded streams for native and stocked trout.
Hunting and Firearms:
About 234 acres are open to hunting, trapping and the training of dogs during established seasons. Common game species are deer, turkey, rabbit, pheasant and squirrel. Thousands of acres of surrounding Moshannon State Forest are open for hunting.
Hunting woodchucks, also known as groundhogs, is prohibited. Dog training is only permitted from the day following Labor Day to March 31 in designated hunting areas. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Pennsylvania Game Commission rules and regulations apply. Contact the park office for accessible hunting information.
Use extreme caution with firearms at all times. The park is used by other visitors during hunting seasons. Firearms and archery equipment may be uncased and ready for use only in authorized hunting areas during hunting seasons. In areas not open to hunting or during non-hunting seasons, firearms and archery equipment shall be kept in the owner's car, trailer or camp. |
| Fishing and Hunting Accessories: |
|
|
| History of the Area: |
| This mountaintop was once covered in giant white pine and hemlock trees. At the turn of the century, the Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company and the Goodyear Lumber Company built railroads and roads to harvest the timber.
This logging devastated the area, entirely wiping out the magnificent stands of pine and hemlock. The logging companies swiftly departed, allowing the forests to regrow. The devastated land was eventually sold to the Commonwealth, usually at tax sales. This accumulation of land eventually became Moshannan State Forest.
Now about a century later, many of the logging roads and railroad grades can be seen in the maturing stands of oak and maple.
The Honorable Simon B. Elliott was a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature and a member of the old State Forestry Reservation Commission, a precursor to the Department of Forestry. This early conservationist promoted the idea of creating a nursery to raise trees for planting in the surrounding area.
In 1911, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania established the Clearfield Forest Tree Nursery in a mountain pasture atop Penfield Mountain. This nursery was later renamed for District Forester William F. Dague who was in charge of its operation from its start in 1911 until 1947. The Dague Nursery was closed in 1978, but its buildings and facilities are still in use as the Moshannon State Forest maintenance headquarters and the seed orchards still supply seeds for the other state nurseries.
In 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established Camp S-116 on land along the edge of the nursery and built the cabins, pavilions, roads, trails and many of the other buildings that exist today.
In that same year, 1933, the former Department of Forests and Waters erected a plaque dedicating Simon B. Elliott State Park. The plaque is on a stone in the pines along the northern edge of the park. |
| |
| |
| | Advertise your park related business
on stateparks.com
...vacation cabin, weekend getaway, log cabin rental, romantic cottage, vacation home, resort, hotel, motel, bed and breakfast, country inn, campground, RV park, horseback riding stable, canoe livery, river rafting, outfitting, sporting goods store, guide service, RV rental, etc read more.... |
|
| Related Links: |
| Pennsylvania State Parks - S. B. Elliott - PA DCNR - This is an official Web site of the Pennsylvania Bureau of State Parks. Begin your adventure here. - S.B. Elliott is a quiet, rustic, mountaintop recreational area just off of I-80 near the... | | Parks - ... will find this park a convenient spot to rest from a journey along the Susquehannock Trail. S.B. Elliott State Park S.B. Elliott is a quiet, rustic, mountaintop recreational area just off of I-80 ... | | Area Campgrounds | | Woodland Campground
314 Egypt Rd
Woodland, PA
(814) 857-5388
| Wagoner's Camping Park
249 Mcdivitt Rd
Curwensville, PA
(814) 236-3313
| Recreation Land Corporation: RV Park Pavillion
1055 Treasure LK
Du Bois, PA
(814) 371-9961
| Clearview Camp Grounds
RR 2 Box 508A
Du Bois, PA
(814) 371-9947
| Clearview Camp Grounds
69 Giles Rd
Du Bois, PA
(814) 371-9947
| Treasure Lake Propert Owners
Du Bois, PA
(814) 371-0711
| |
| | Area Fishing Related Businesses | | Hoover's Bait & Tackle Shop
149 W Long Ave
Du Bois, PA
(814) 372-4649
| Red Mill Bait & Tackle
Perrin Dr
Falls Creek, PA
(814) 375-4477
| |
|
| Directions: |
| S. B. Elliott State Park is in Clearfield County off of PA 153 just north of Exit 111 of I-80, nine miles north of the community of Clearfield. |
|
|
| |
|
USA
