rich00 Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Rockton is a village in Union Township resting along Anderson Creek at the Brown Springs Trailhead in the Moshannon State Forest. Rockton has natural assets similar to Ohiopyle in Fayette County. The Rockton-Bridgeport corridor compares favorably to the Ohiopyle-Confluence corridor of the Great Allegheny Passage in location, topography, whitewater classification, water trail, vertical drop, put-in, take-out, history, railroad accessibility and nearby assets. The Cumberland-Frostburg corridor of the Great Allegheny Passage features a ride on a steam locomotive with bicycle storage, ascending from Cumberland to Frostburg on a 15-mile trip. The trail downhill to Cumberland is a Dobby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest constructionguy34 Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 I used to live an hour from Ohiopyle. I would certainly recommend it to any sort of cyclist, hiker, rafter. It is a beautiful place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monroefiles Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 We did water rapids at Ohiopyle in 2008. TONS of fun! We take our pups to Brown Springs to go swimming. Dobby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Mungaknuts Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 Is Anderson Creek deep enogh to canoe or kyak all the way down to the west branch? Dobby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich00 Posted January 10, 2010 Author Share Posted January 10, 2010 Yes. Anderson Creek in a Class II-III+ whitewater stream. See www.americanwhitewater.org. Dobby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 We did water rapids at Ohiopyle in 2008. TONS of fun! We take our pups to Brown Springs to go swimming. Been there many times, it has to be the coldest swimming hole around.. Dobby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 About 18 years ago my friend David Spuck and I took a hike from Continental road above Sabula down the ridge to Winterburn and returned up the valley through Hickeyville on the old railroad grade there was seven very nice large beaver dams on the way back, we also seen many bobcat tracks and several Coyotes running away from us. About all that is left of Hickeyville is the big foundation pad the water tower for the railroad used to stand on. Dobby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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