Yellow Creek State Park

Yellow Creek State Park is in Indiana County along one of the first “highways” in the state, the Kittanning Path. This trail was used by the Delaware and Shawnee nations and by early European settlers. Today, US 422 roughly follows the old Kittanning Path, and provides the main access to the park from the towns of Indiana and Ebensburg. The park is named for the Yellow and Little Yellow creeks, which create the lake. The creeks have lots of yellow clay in the banks and bottoms. The lake is not a true lake, but instead an impoundment created by a dam on Yellow Creek.

The 720-acre Yellow Creek Lake has boat launching ramps at the north shore, the south shore, at the beach/day-use area and a small launch in Grampap's Cove. A boat rental in the beach/day use area offers motorboats, canoes, rowboats, paddleboats, pontoon boats and small sailboats.

The lake is well stocked with most warm-water game fish and panfish typically found throughout the Commonwealth. These include smallmouth and largemouth bass, walleye, muskellunge, northern pike, tiger muskellunge, yellow perch, bluegill and catfish. There is an accessible fishing pier on the north shore. Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission big bass regulations are in effect on Yellow Creek Lake.

For more information on these and other park activities activities, directions and a map, go to the DCNR website, call Manager Kenneth Bisbee at 724-357-7913, or email at yellowcreeksp@state.pa.us .

Today's photo was taken by WPC's Carla Ruddock, Watershed Planning Coordinator.

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