USDA Forest Service · Pennsylvania
Twin Lakes (Pa)
USDA Forest Service · Pennsylvania, United States
- Sites
- 59
- Hookups
- 19 electric, 31 no hookups
- Max RV length
- 40 ft
- Group sites
- Yes
- Restrooms
- Yes
- Elevation
- 1,765 ft
- Dark sky
- Bortle class 1
- Cell coverage
- T-Mobile none · AT&T none · Verizon none (carriers' 4G LTE filings to the FCC, 2025-12; not measured here)
- Access road
- TWIN LAKES (NFSR 191) · asphalt · moderate degree of user comfort
- Lake
- Allegheny National Forest
- Nearest town
- Marienville
- Address
- 131 Smokey Lane, Marienville , PA, 16239
- Phone
- (814) 368-4158
- Activities
- Camping, Fishing, Hiking, Swimming
51 numbered sites are mapped one by one - open the site map to pick yours.
About
Overview
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Twin Lakes Campground is located near a small, spring-fed, trout-stocked lake, popular with families. Visitors enjoy fishing, swimming and exploring local trails, including the Twin Lakes Trail. The campground was once the site of a chemical factory, and the lake was built as a "splash dam" to raise water levels in a plant downstream.
Recreation
Campers love Twin Lakes for its swimming beaches and lakeside fishing piers. Mill Creek offers native trout fishing, and can be accessed along the Mill Creek Trail.
Hiking and backpacking are available along area trails. The Black Cherry National Recreation Interpretative Trail features nearly 40 interpretive displays along its path, and forms the eastern end of the Twin Lakes Trail, the second longest in the forest.
Facilities
Twin Lakes Campground offers a variety of sites, from group picnic and overnight sites to family sites with and without electric hookups. Amenities include vault toilets and a dump station. Ice and firewood are available for purchase.
Natural Features
The Twin Lakes area is forested with a mixture of hardwoods. Many natural streams and creeks meander through the landscape within the Allegheny National Forest in northwestern Pennsylvania.
The Allegheny is the state's only national forest. It covers nearly half a million acres and is populated primarily with black cherry, maple and other hardwoods.
Contact Info
For facility specific information, please call (814) 389-3019.
Fees
This 48-site campground includes family campsites (some include electric hookups), 2 double campsites and 1 group tent campsites, for groups up to 50, with pavilions. Other facilities include vault toilets, trailer dump stations, paved paths and roadways and playgrounds. The day use area includes a swimming beach, bathhouse, picnic tables, pavilion, playground, walking trail around the lake and fishing piers.
Weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Typical low | Coldest night | Hottest day | Years with a night below 32°F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30° | 15° | -9° | 56° | 11 of 11 |
| February | 34° | 19° | -9° | 61° | 11 of 11 |
| March | 43° | 27° | 7° | 67° | 10 of 11 |
| April | 60° | 37° | 17° | 80° | 6 of 11 |
| May | 67° | 50° | 30° | 83° | 1 of 11 |
| June | 71° | 55° | 44° | 86° | 0 of 11 |
| July | 79° | 63° | 53° | 90° | 0 of 11 |
| August | 76° | 62° | 52° | 88° | 0 of 11 |
| September | 72° | 57° | 44° | 85° | 0 of 11 |
| October | 57° | 42° | 32° | 75° | 1 of 10 |
| November | 43° | 31° | 13° | 62° | 10 of 10 |
| December | 34° | 26° | 4° | 57° | 10 of 10 |
Mid-month figures from 2016–2026 of daily weather at this spot (ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0), in °F. Typical is the median; coldest and hottest are the extremes seen.
Nearby campgrounds
- Twin Lakes Campground · USDA Forest Service · 0 mi
- East Branch Campground · Army Corps of Engineers · 9 mi · 33 sites
- Nct-Gibbs Spring Shelter · USDA Forest Service · 10 mi
- Nct-Cherry Run Shelter · USDA Forest Service · 11 mi
- Red Bridge (Pa) · USDA Forest Service · 13 mi · 84 sites
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