Ohiopyle State Park

... near the private boater change house to get changed and set shuttle. Since it was Friday we did not need launch permits from the state park.  The first mile of the Lower Yough is referred to as the Loop because the river actually does make a loop ...

... . We made group reservations at Tall Oaks Campground which is in Farmington, PA about 15 minutes from Ohiopyle, PA. Tall Oaks allows alcohol while the state park campgrounds near the Lower Yough doesn't so its very popular with kayakers and rafters. I ...

Over Labor Day weekend I went camping and rafting in the Ohiopyle State Park. I had never been on the Lower Yough before but Beth, another avid rafter I met in WV, was coming along as well as my brother and his wife. We decided to do an unguided run of ...

We got up early today to make the 90 minute drive South to Ohiopyle State Park to go white water rafting in the lower youghiogheny river.  This was the first time I've been rafting since getting back from Europe where I went in Austria.  The ...

... survived another Yough adventure to talk about, two half-drowned rats were only fit to have dinner at Joe’s Doggs, planning for Streetsboro, Ohio (south of Cleveland)  to visit Cuyahoga Valley National Park and Holmes County Amish ...

... Corridor traverses the 90-mile stretch of the Historic National Road in Pennsylvania. The first federally funded road in the United States, a portion of which is currently known as Route 40, this corridor celebrates the history and heritage of the ...

There are some natural rock slides that have been worn into the river down from the state campground that the kids had fun in.  I would recommend wearing heavy shorts for this.  The kids faired okay with just their swimsuits, but I did see ...