Lower Shamokin Falls Hike

Distance: 3.4 miles.
Difficulty Level: moderate. 🟦
Time: 1-2 hours.
Elevation Change: 700 ft.
Key Features: waterfall, streams, wildflowers, family friendly.
Blaze Color: blue.
Access: Parking at the end of Old Stoney Creek Road (at gate).
Google map directions to the parking area.

From the parking area, the trail follows a gravel two-track road to Peggy's Pinch pump station and power station. Stay to the right of the pump house building and cross the metal pedestrian footbridge, turn right, uphill, on the jeep road. At the red gate, there is a sign saying the road is to be used only by owners and accompanied guests; this applies only to vehicle traffic. The blue blazed trail follows this road for about three-quarters of a mile, then veers off to the left, leaving the jeep road at a sign. From there it is purely foot trail up to the falls, which is rocky in places.

Perhaps the longest destination hike on the property, the end of the trail is located at the base of a cascading waterfall that begins just below the Upper Shamokin Falls Trail