In an unprecedented step, officials are asking visitors to a number of state parks and forest areas to simply find somewhere else to go on the weekends in an effort to stem chronic overcrowding during ...

Rescue crews searching Beltzville Lake. LEHIGHTON, Pa. – Rescue crews were searching Beltzville Lake for a missing person. Carbon County dispatchers said crews were called around 8 p.m. Thursday to ...

It was Elizabeth Payano’s first time visiting the picturesque lake in the foothills of the Pocono Mountains with her family. The Sayreville mother had heard about Beltzville Stat e Park’s lake from ...

LEHIGHTON, Pa. — It was a little after 10 in the morning when search and rescue boats pulled into the shore here at Beltzville Lake near Lehighton. Officials say the body of a 19-year-old swimmer from ...

TOWAMENSING TWP., Pa. - Crowds flocked to Beltzville State Park in Carbon County over the weekend. So many cars poured into the park Sunday that it filled to capacity. Rangers had closed off the ...

A Pennsylvania legislator wants to bar out-of-state visitors from areas at Beltzville State Park, after large groups have converged on the Carbon County lake during the pandemic. “With the current ...

Elisam Santana loved playing basketball, and he kept notebooks full of handwritten thoughts about Bible passages that meant something to him. He drowned at just 19 years old while saving his cousin, 9 ...

CARBON COUNTY, Pa. — It's a sight people had to see with their own eyes at Beltzville State Park. With drought conditions dragging on, Beltzville Lake near Lehighton is rapidly receding. "Well, I knew ...

Elisam Santana loved playing basketball, and he kept notebooks full of handwritten thoughts about Bible passages that meant something to him. He drowned at just 19 years old while saving his cousin, 9 ...