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It's always fun to stop by Bear Creek Lake. You'll meet a lot of folks from Scranton—Wilkes-Barre here, and a quick spree to Little Bear Creek is beyond doubt a splendid idea. All through the warmest time of the year here at Bear Creek Lake, high temperatures mostly get into the 70's. Throughout the moonlight hours it's usually in the 50's. Daytime highs through the wintertime are in the 20's; night lows at Bear Creek Lake throughout the winter generally drop
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| | into the 10's. Mountain Laurel Resort & Spa is a delightful place to get some rest, and hey, Gotta ski right? Jack Frost is a wonderful spot to do that.
If you came for an overnight stay Whitewater Raft Campground is a wonderful place to camp, and wonderful water scenery is available at Bear Creek Dam in the neighborhood of Bear Creek Lake. This lake is so wonderful. Not far from Bear Creek Lake, you'll discover Antler Lake which is a pretty lake, and dry | |
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warm beds await you at Best Western East Mountain Inn & Suites. A typical amount of precipitation falls here at Bear Creek Lake; July is the wettest month with most rain; January meanwhile is the driest month.
Hiking along the
Boulder Field Trail is good fun, and in the event that you don't mind getting dripping wet, you can always go whitewater paddling on Bear Creek. Take a hike on the Refuge Trail, and why not camp at Lehigh Gorge Campground while you're
here at Bear Creek Lake. What a place this is for outdoors folks. Whitewater paddling is great on Lehigh River; McKean Swamp is an exciting swamp in the neighborhood of Bear Creek Lake.
Bear Creek Lake in fact is in the middle
of a striking outdoors paradise. Enjoy a round of golf at Wilkes Barre Golf Club not far from Bear Creek Lake. This lake is so wonderful. Bear Creek Lake is right by the Choke Creek Trail, and picturesque scenery and brilliant skiing is what you get at Montage Mountain.
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 41.17917
Longitude: -75.75611
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Jack Frost, Pennsylvania, 8 miles away
600 vertical feet |
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Split Rock, Pennsylvania, 11 miles away
250 vertical feet |
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Bear Creek, Luzerne CountyCounty, 2 miles away
Class I-III - 6.6 miles long (Pennsylvania Route 115 to Walter Dam) |
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Lehigh River, Carbon CountyCounty, 5 miles away
Class II(III) - 6.75 miles long (Francis Walters Dam to White Haven) |
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Lackawanna River, Lackawanna / Luzerne CountyCounty, 9 miles away
Class I-IV - 26.8 miles long (Carbondale to Susquehanna River) |
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