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Frances Slocum State Park
State Park Information

State Park Overview

Camping
Camping modern sites, some with elec.

A 100-site campground, with 15 walk-in tent sites and 85 tent or trailer sites (some accessible and some with electric hookups), is available from the second Friday in April through the third Sunday in October. Each site contains a picnic table and fire ring. Flush toilets, showers, drinking water and a sanitary dump station are available.

Organized Group Tenting

Organized groups can rent this modern area, which can accommodate up to 40 people and has drinking water, fire rings, picnic tables, flush toilets and shower facilities.

Trails
Frances Slocum Trail blue blazes, 0.7-mile This loop trail begins and ends at the boat rental parking lot. On this trail you will see beautiful forests and the rock shelter where American Indians temporarily held their small captive (Frances Slocum).

Campground Trail white blazes, 1 mile Campers can access this trail from the Stony Point parking lot or from behind the Organized Group Tenting Area. A short stretch of Campground Trail follows Larch Tree Trail.

Deer Trail yellow blazes, 1.3-mile, 2.5 miles, 3.8 miles This interpretive trail has three loops of varying lengths which allow you take a short walk or an adventure of almost four miles. This trail starts at the environmental interpretive center and passes through a diversity of habitats including lakeshore, thicket, hemlock stand, mixed forest, marsh and hardwood forest. A portion of this trail passes through hunting lands. Use caution when hiking in hunting seasons.

Lakeshore Trail red blazes, 1.4-mile This trail begins at the Campground Road bridge or the Big Pines Picnic Area and follows the lake shore. It is popular with shore anglers.

Larch Tree Trail orange blazes, 2 miles This hilly trail loops around the northeast corner of the park and through a large stand of larch trees.

Picnicking

Boating
Boating electric motors only

The 165-acre Frances Slocum Lake has two boat launches, two mooring areas and courtesy docks. A boat concession rents rowboats, paddleboats and canoes.

Motorboats must display a boat registration from any state. Non-powered boats must display one of the following boat registration from any state launching permit or mooring permit from Pennsylvania State Parks that are available at most state park offices launch use permit from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.

Swimming

Fishing and Hunting
Fishing

The 165-acre Frances Slocum Lake is a warm-water fishery. There are crappie, bluegill, perch, catfish, muskellunge, pickerel, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass and walleye. Ice fishing is permitted. An accessible fishing pier is between Picnic Pavilion Three and the main boat launch.

Hunting

About 300 acres are open to hunting, trapping and the training of dogs during established seasons. Common game species are deer, rabbit and squirrel.

Hunting woodchucks -lso known as groundhogs, is prohibited. Dog training is only permitted from the day following Labor Day through March 31 in designated hunting areas. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Pennsylvania Game Commission rules and regulations apply. Contact the park office for accessible hunting information.

Use extreme caution with firearms at all times. The park is used by other visitors during hunting seasons. Firearms and archery equipment may be uncased and ready for use only in authorized hunting areas during hunting seasons. In areas not open to hunting or during non-hunting seasons, firearms and archery equipment must be kept in the owners car, trailer or camp.

History of the Area
On November 2, 1778 - small group of Delaware Indians entered the Slocum home and carried away Frances who was then just five years old. The first night after her abduction was spent in a crude shelter under a rock ledge along Abraham Creek, believed to be within the state park boundary. Frances tried to escape during the first night but was soon recaptured. Frances was taken along as the American Indians moved westward and spent the rest of her life with them.

Her brothers never gave up the search. Fifty-ine years after her abduction they found her living on a reservation - Peru, Indiana. She had been married twice and had borne four children. Frances refused the pleas of her brothers to return to Pennsylvania. The brothers wrote to her and learned many of the details of her abduction and life with American Indians.

Frances Slocum died in Indiana in 1847 -t the age of 74. The Mississinewa Reservoir and State Forest in Indiana contains the Frances Slocum State Recreational Area and Lost Sister Trail. Along the Mississinewa River in Indiana, there is a monument that marks the final resting-place of Frances Slocum -lso called Mocanaquah, the ?Young Bear.?



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Nature Programs
Natural and cultural history programs are conducted by a park environmental educator from March through November. The park provides environmental education and interpretive programs that usually begin at the campground amphitheater from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day.

Curriculum-based environmental education programs and teacher workshops are available to area schools.

An environmental interpretive center in the day use area features exhibits on American Indians and ecological topics. A self-guiding nature trail starts nearby and interprets the park?s natural resources.

Area Campgrounds

Frances Slocum State Park
565 Mount Olivet Rd
Wyoming, PA
(570) 696-3525

Lake Greeley Camp
330 N Main St
Moscow, PA
(570) 842-3739

Luzerne County Court House Recreation & Parks-Programs
Moon Lake Park
Hunlock Creek, PA
(570) 477-5467

Sweet Valley Village
Hunlock Creek, PA
(570) 4772455

Moon Lake
Hunlock Creek, PA
(570) 477-5467

Selmad Equipment & Supplies Inc
RR 347
Olyphant, PA
(570) 383-7734

Highland Campground
RR 2 Box 278
Dalton, PA
(570) 586-0145

How Kola Camp
Brinktown
Clarks Summit, PA
(570) 5872732



Area Fishing Related Businesses

Stapleton Pharmacy-Sporting Goods
299 Wyoming Ave
Wyoming, PA
(570) 6932374

West Side Bait & Tackle Goods
453 W 8th St # B
Wyoming, PA
(570) 693-0248

Ray's Bait & Tackle
220 Main St
Avoca, PA
(570) 654-9555

Salmon Steelhead Trout Sports Shop
177 Hemlock St
Kingston, PA
(570) 287-4143

A & G Outfitters
1152 Commerce Blvd
Dickson City, PA
(570) 4892650

Bait Buddies
671 Prichards Rd
Hunlock Creek, PA
(570) 256-7780

Ray's Bait & Tackle
220 Main St
Pittston, PA
(570) 654-9555

Z's Bait & Tackle
Route 92
Falls, PA
(570) 388-6801

Seventh Sense Fishing Products
4822 Blue Ridge Trl
Mountain Top, PA
(570) 868-6010

Anglers Vice Fly Fishing
104 S State St
Clarks Summit, PA
(570) 587-2737



Area Resorts and Lodging

Woodlands Inn & Resort
1073 Highway 315
Wilkes Barre, PA
(800) 762-2222

Clarion Inn
300 Meadow Avenue
Scranton, PA
(570) 344-9811

Plymouth Lodge 332 F & AM
45 Center Ave
Plymouth, PA
(570) 7192375

Bear Lake Lodge
Ber LK
Wilkes Barre, PA
(570) 472-3811

Montage Mountain Ski Resort
1000 Montage Mountain Rd
Scranton, PA
(570) 969-7669

Carmen's Radisson Lackawanna Sta Hotel Scranton
700 Lackawanna Ave
Scranton, PA
(570) 342-8300


Frances Slocum State Park