Pymatuning State Park
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Pymatuning State Park is one of the largest state parks in Pennsylvania. The 17,088-acre Pymatuning Lake, 3/4 in Pennsylvania and 1/4 in Ohio, provides fishing and boating year round.
Formed in the 1930s by a dam on the Shenango River, the lake features multiple beaches and camping areas in both states. There are two natural areas, Clark Island (161 acres) and Blackjack (725 acres) in the park. Like all Pennsylvania state parks, admission to the Pymatuning State Park is free.
The northeastern part of Pymatuning Lake, east of the spillway and three miles south of Linesville, is a protected gameland where colonies of 20,000 Canada Geese and many more ducks winter each year. The lake is the result of an earth dam three miles north of Jamestown, Pennsylvania, whose outflow forms the Shenango River. A north-south spillway crosses the northern part of the lake, with the gameland on the east side. Along this spillway are a wildlife museum and the Linesville spillway, a site famous as "The Place Where the Ducks Walk on the Fishes' Backs". In warm weather, many people throw bread into the water here, and the resulting density of fish (carp) causes ducks and other waterfowl to walk over the carp and vie for the thrown food.
A three-mile causeway extends between Pennsylvania and Ohio near the center of the lake.
The Pymatuning Waterfowl Museum is located one mile north of the spillway.
