Allegheny National Forest · Pennsylvania

Little Drummer Historical Path

1.4 mi of trail, end to end · Little Drummer Historical Pathway: 1 mi loop in the Service's write-up · native material surface · trail No. 85023 · trail class 3 · typical grade trail_grade · tread 24-36 inches wide · hiking, bike

Begins at the forest's mile 0, 41.4085, -78.8692 - no trailhead mapped Drive to where the trail begins

Little Drummer Historical Pathway 1 mi loop · the Forest Service's write-up

No fee · season January to December

The Little Drummer Historical Pathway, is a short 1-mile loop and a 2.1-mile loop through a managed wildlife area.

There are 26 informative signs to help you enjoy exploring a variety of wildlife habitats. Hiking you will see a mix of forest conditions including hardwood trees, spruce and larch, woody shrubs and young forest, Cole Run pond, wetlands and streams, and a diversity of openings and edges. The sign-posts you pass include an assortment of animals, plants or habitat features you are likely to encounter.

Restrictions As a visitor to the National Forest, you are asked to follow certain rules designed to protect the Forest, natural resources and to provide for public safety of visitors. These rules are available to you <a href="http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/allegheny/notices/?cid=FSEPRD520129">on-line</a> or at any office of the Allegheny National Forest. Please take time to read and understand them. <a href="http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/allegheny/notices/?cid=FSEPRD520129">General Topic orders</a> apply across the Forest. <strong>Applicable Orders for this Site:</strong> <ul><li>Occupancy Limits</li></ul>The trail is marked with off-white diamond-shaped markers on trees, or with decals on brown plastic posts. Walk-in camping is permitted. The use of mountain bikes and saddle, pack or draft animals is prohibited.

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About this trail's facts

The lines are the US Forest Service's National Forest System trails layer (public domain), read 2026-10-16 and simplified for the map; the length is the line's, end to end, and the class, surface, grade and tread width are the forest's own entries where it publishes them - a forest that publishes the centreline alone has none. The trailheads and the points along the way are the Service's recreation points, and the write-ups its own recarea text, unedited. Heights come from USGS 3DEP through Terrain Tiles on AWS (Mapzen/Tilezen), read along each line and rounded; a short trail on steep ground can be off by a few tens of feet. Closures change: check the forest's own site before you go.