Blue Knob, PA

Blue Knob State Park is a 6,128-acre Pennsylvania state park in Kimmel, Lincoln, and Pavia townships in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The average annual snowfall at the park is about 12 feet. The park is named for Blue Knob, the second highest mountain in Pennsylvania at 3,146 feet. Amenities include skiing, cross-country skiing, snow boarding, tubing, mountain biking, a golf course, a swimming pool and a lodge. The resort was once the site of a military base. The through line in Blue Knob is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map.

Blue Knob makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. Blue Knob is the location of Blue Knob All Seasons Resort, the ski slope in Pennsylvania with the highest elevation. Blue Knob State Park is just off Interstate 99 on Pennsylvania Route 869 west of Pavia. The logging boom that swept over most of the mountains and forests of Pennsylvania drastically altered the landscape surrounding Blue Knob State Park.