Pennsylvania offers hundreds of thousands of acres to hunters and trappers to pursue their pastimes. These lands include
State Game Lands,
State Forest Lands,
State Parks, the
Allegheny National Forest, the
Erie National Wildlife Refuge, Army Corps of Engineers properties and county and municipal parks and recreation areas. The State Game Lands system includes more than 1.4 million acres. State Forests account for about 2 million acres. The Allegheny National Forest has more than half a million acres.
In addition to the millions of public land acres available to hunters statewide, the Pennsylvania Game Commission partners with private landowners in most counties to provide public hunting opportunities through its cooperative public access programs. The
Cooperative Farm-Game Program, implemented back in 1936, the
Safety Zone Program, created in 1958, and the
Cooperative Forest- Game Program, started in 1971, all have provided and continue to provide great hunting and trapping to the Commonwealth’s sportsmen and sportswomen on millions of acres.
The map below provides links to county-specific maps of all the aforementioned recreational destinations. Just click on your county of interest and you will download a sizeable PDF map that showcases these properties. Maps do have a zoom feature. All text links in the preceding two paragraphs will direct you to specific properties or program information.