To understand the High Plateau, you must understand the "Big Survey." In the late 19th century, the Allegheny Mountains were the lumber capital of the world. Hemlock bark fu...

The Jakes Rocks trail system, just across the reservoir, is designed for movement and efficiency. The Tracy Ridge Recreation Area, by contrast, is designed for stillness. It...

During the mid-1800s, the Allegheny River was the primary "highway" for the world's finest White Pine. But the river was a treacherous business partner. Thousands of massive l...

Logging camps were lonely places. When the wind howled through the hemlocks and the shadows grew long, the men of the Allegheny Plateau didn't just worry about wolves or bears...

Before Paul Bunyan ever swung an axe in the Northwoods, the Allegheny Plateau had a living legend of its own: Bill Green...

In the heart of the Allegheny National Forest lies a 120-acre cathedral of ancient wood known as Heart’s Content...

The dense, second-growth forests of the Plateau have a way of playing tricks on the mind. Once the sun dips below the ridge of the Allegheny Front, the "official" history of t...

If you boat across the glass-calm waters of the Allegheny Reservoir on a quiet morning, you are floating over a lost world. Sixty feet below your hull lies the main street of ...

If you spend enough time in the taverns of Tionesta or around a campfire in the Allegheny National Forest, the conversation eventually turns to "The Mine." Not an oil well or ...

In 1933, the Allegheny Plateau was a scarred landscape. Decades of aggressive logging and unchecked forest fires had left the region "the land that nobody wanted"—a deci...