recreation

SMETHPORT — The NTL Track & Field Championships held Friday in Smethport. Otto-Eldred’s Ray’shene Thomas broke the NTL meet record in triple jump with...

DRINKING: Folks, our fellow Pennsylvania residents need better coping mechanisms. A study by mybiosource.com measured how many standard alcoholic drin...

WARREN — This year, the Allegheny National Forest Chapter of the North Country Trail Association focused on two goals — improving the drainage on the ...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has announced a total of $5,218,900 in grants for organizations and pro...

CAMP HILL — The Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation (PPFF) announced the formation of a new Friends Group dedicated to supporting and enhancing ...

Bootstrapping economic growth has a certain appeal. It’s decentralized with many actors pursuing their own ends – plant 1,000 seeds and let the flower...

It’s been a long time coming, but the dust is being shaken off at Denton Hill State Park and all kinds of adventure awaits. On Monday, John Hallas, st...

Beautiful weather greeted 199 hikers to the 14th Annual Allegheny-100 Hiking Challenge (A-100) last weekend. The ANF Chapter of the North Country Trai...

Detoured from their usual routines and locked out of much of their usual entertainment, Pennsylvanians flocked to the great outdoors at the height of ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania added 2,000 jobs in outdoor recreation in 2021, according to statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Tha...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Outdoor recreation, from biking and snow sports to camping and hiking to hunting and fishing, generated almost $59 billion in econo...

KANE — A new campaign being launched this year in the PA Wilds could have positive impacts for many communities across the rural region. The Wilds Are...

AUSTIN — Sinnemahoning State Park is now accepting registrations for the Winter Women in the Wilds (WITW) event, which will be held at the park during...

Visitors to Pennsylvania state parks dropped by 2.6 million so far this year in comparison to the same period last year, according to statistics from ...

Pennsylvania spends about $1.1 billion annually on its parks and recreation areas, but that is just $83 per resident, the 10th lowest rate of spending...

WARREN — The US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service is conducting a Recreation Site Analysis (RSA) of the developed recreation sites in the Alle...

WARREN — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service announced that a traffic hazard exists where a small subsidence occurred in the underlying slo...

The Rotary Club of Port Allegany sponsored CARE for Children’s spring therapeutic recreation programs. Due to the ongoing pandemic, CARE offered a thr...

HARRISBURG — The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is accepting grant applications for recreation and conservation projects in Pennsylv...

The National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 293 recently dissolved the Tommy Frontino Memorial Fund and contributed the balance of $4,793.40 to...