BARNESVILLE — Visitors at Locust Lake State Park this year will have to look elsewhere to go camping, as more than half of the campsites are closed for the season due to ongoing construction. Nearly ...

The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has appointed a new park manager for Locust Lake and Tuscarora state ...

BARNESVILLE – At Locust Lake, people used to pay to fish. Then, 50 years ago, Pennsylvania bought the property and created a state park where tens of thousands of visitors each year fish, camp, swim, ...

Locust Lake State Park celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. It was on June 10, 1972 that the park was dedicated. Park Manager Nicholas Sulzer, had this to say: “As the 50th Anniversary of Locust ...

LOCUST LAKE STATE PARK -- A couple from Schuylkill County were on a camping trip recently and while kayaking, they came across something you wouldn't normally see in freshwater. "We were up here for ...

This is the tale of two state parks, two lakes and four families. Separated by fewer than eight miles of and twisting and turning roads are Locust Lake and Tuscarora state parks in Schuylkill County.

LOCUST LAKE STATE PARK — Few people at the Locust Lake State Park near Barnesville actually spent time in the lake. People wore long pants and long sleeves; usually a rarity on the fourth of July. But ...

Enthusiasm is brimming for a volunteer group that would assist at Locust Lake and Tuscarora state parks in Barnesville, organizers said. “There was very strong interest in the idea of a friends group, ...