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This is a list of lakes and reservoirs in the state of Pennsylvania in the United States. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.
Scale depiction of the 15 largest lakes in the US. The following is a list of the 100 largest lakes of the United States by normal surface area. The top twenty lakes in size are as listed by the National Atlas of the United States, a publication of the United States Department of the Interior. The area given is the normal or average area of the ...
Harveys Lake dam. Harveys Lake is the largest natural lake in Pennsylvania by volume and the second-largest by surface area. [3] [4] [5] It has a surface area of 621.5 acres (251.5 ha) and an average depth of 36 feet (11 meters), [3] as well as a maximum depth of 102 feet (31 m). [5]
Conneaut Lake / ˈ k ɒ n i ˌ ɔː t / is the largest natural lake in Pennsylvania by surface area. [3] It is located in western Crawford County near a town with the same name. Its has a surface area of approximately 925 acres. The site of the lake is actually in adjacent Sadsbury Township and nearby Summit Township.
State parks range in size from 3 acres (1.2 ha) to 21,122 acres (8,548 ha) and comprise one percent of Pennsylvania's total land area. [2] According to Dan Cupper (1993), "Pennsylvania is the thirty-third largest state, but only Alaska and California have more park land".
Lake Wallenpaupack (/ ˌ w ɒ l ɪ n ˈ p ɔː p æ k /) is a reservoir in Northeastern Pennsylvania. After Raystown Lake , it is the second-largest lake contained entirely in Pennsylvania . It comprises 52 miles (84 kilometers) of shoreline, with a length of 13 miles (21 kilometers) and a maximum depth of 60 feet (18 meters), and has a surface ...
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Raystown Lake is a reservoir in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. It is the largest lake that is entirely within Pennsylvania. The original lake was built by the Simpson family of Huntingdon as a hydroelectric project. The current 8,300-acre (34 km 2) Raystown Lake was completed in 1973 by the Army Corps of Engineers. Raystown is around 200 feet ...