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 ...

If you’re planning to go to Beltzville State Park in Carbon County over the holiday weekend, you should either get there early or have a plan B. The popular park is warning that if it becomes too ...

TOWAMENSING TWP., Pa. - The Carbon County coroner's office has identified the man who's body was found Friday by rescue crews in Beltzville Lake. William Shipe Jr., 70, of Allentown, died as a result ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Hazleton man who died at Beltzville State Park on Sunday drowned in waters where swimming is prohibited, state police at Lehighton said. Juan Rosa, 20, was reported missing after 2 p.m. and was last ...

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 ...