The Allegheny National Recreation Area is a national recreation area of the United States, located on the

Allegheny Plateau The Allegheny Plateau , in the United States, is a large dissected plateau area of the Appalachian Mountains in western and central New York (state), New York, northern and western Pennsylvania, northern and western West Virginia, and eastern Oh ...

in northwestern

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. It is administered by the

United States Forest Service The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 United States National Forest, national forests and 20 United States Nationa ...

as part of the

Allegheny National Forest The Allegheny National Forest is a National Forest in Northwestern Pennsylvania, about 100 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. The forest covers of land. Within the forest is Kinzua Dam, which impounds the Allegheny River to form Allegheny Reservoir ...

Geography

The recreation area consists of on three separate parcels of land within the forest. It was established under the Pennsylvania Wilderness Act of 1984, by Congressman Bill Clinger, Senator

Arlen Specter Arlen Specter (February 12, 1930 – October 14, 2012) was an American lawyer, author and politician who served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2011. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican fr ...

, and Senator

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. The national recreation area is divided into two units, one around

Allegheny Reservoir The Allegheny Reservoir (also known as Kinzua Lake and unofficially as Lake Perfidy) is a reservoir along the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania and New York, USA. It was created in 1965 by the construction of the Kinzua Dam along the river. Lake Per ...

upstream from Kinzua Dam, and another to the south of Warren on the west bank of the

Allegheny River The Allegheny River ( ) is a long headwater stream of the Ohio River in western Pennsylvania and New York. The Allegheny River runs from its headwaters just below the middle of Pennsylvania's northern border northwesterly into New York then i ...

. Allegheny National Recreation Area was established by the 1984 Pennsylvania Wilderness Act, Public Law 98-585.

References

{{Clear National Recreation Areas of the United States Parks in Pennsylvania Allegheny National Forest Allegheny Plateau Parks in McKean County, Pennsylvania Parks in Warren County, Pennsylvania Protected areas established in 1984 1984 establishments in Pennsylvania Protected areas of Warren County, Pennsylvania Protected areas of Elk County, Pennsylvania Protected areas of McKean County, Pennsylvania Protected areas of Forest County, Pennsylvania