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Yellow Creek State Park, Penn Run, PA

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Sports & Outdoors

Yellow Creek State Park

A roughly 2,981-acre Pennsylvania state park in Indiana County with a 720-acre lake, a sand beach, and boating, fishing, and picnic areas.

170 Route 259 Highway, Penn Run, PA 15765-5941 · Penn Run, PA

About Yellow Creek State Park

Yellow Creek State Park covers about 2,981 acres in Indiana County in western Pennsylvania. It follows part of the Kittanning Path, an early route that the Delaware and Shawnee peoples and later settlers traveled. Visitors can swim at a sand beach, picnic, and join educational and recreational programs. The 720-acre Yellow Creek Lake draws boaters and anglers, and the lake and surrounding land serve as a resting stop for migrating birds. The park takes its name from Yellow Creek and Little Yellow Creek, whose banks and beds hold yellow clay. The park lies along PA 422 between Ebensburg and Indiana.

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