Power outages, downed trees and limbs, and other wind damage were commonplace in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, but state parks and state forests were spared the severe damage associated with the historic coastal storm that struck October 29-30.

Most damage addressed by DCNR was confined to state parks in the eastern section of the state, Region 4. Two state parks—Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center, Northampton County, and Delaware Canal State Park, Bucks and Northampton counties—remained without power as of Tuesday.

Park visitation and camping reservation were temporarily affected as outages crimped telephone, Internet and other operations at at least nine other parks. Affected were: Fort Washington, Montgomery County; Hickory Run, Carbon County; Lackawanna, Lackawanna County; Memorial Lake, Lebanon County; Nockamixon, Bucks County; Promised Land, Pike County; Tuscarora, Schuylkill County; Tyler, Bucks County; White Clay Creek, Delaware County.

In addition, wind and falling tree/limb damage was reported at Beltzville State Park, Carbon County; Hickory Run; Lehigh Gorge, Carbon County; Lackawanna. In Nockamixon, a tree toppled on a cabin and the occupant’s car. In Nockamixon’s marina, high winds and heavy rain left 12 boats submerged.

(Reprinted from the DCNR Resource online newsletter.)

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