Check out the Luzerne County Outdoors section of the site for more information.

Moon Lake Park

Moon Lake Park, located off State Route 29, is the county’s busiest park. Moon Lake features most of the amenities that residents expect from a well-maintained recreational facility. In addition to an exceptional natural area trail system, Moon Lake Park offers swimming, camping, boating, fishing, hiking, disc golf, tennis, softball, basketball, and picnic  facilities. Winter sports include ice fishing, ice skating, cross-country ski trails, and sledding.

Moon Lake also features 63 tent and trailer camp sites, a double-sized Olympic swimming pool, rental row boats and paddle boats (the lake is not open to private boats), and a nature education center with a park naturalist to provide environmental education programs. The park also offers four well-marked trails (more than twenty miles), and a detailed nature trail that gives visitors a chance to fully appreciate the trees, shrubs, ferns, swamps, lakes, and streams that make Moon Lake extra special. Moon Lake’s extensive trail system is also open for mountain bike and equestrian use.  Cross country skiing is popular on beautiful winter days. Snowmobiles are not permitted.  Moon Lake also provides picnic areas and two, large rental pavilions, along with basketball and tennis courts, and softball fields. Moon Lake is the annual home of the Northeast Scout Jamboree.

Luzerne County Sports Complex
The County’s Recreation Department maintains an impressive recreation complex in Forty Fort, J. Charles Fields, just south of the small Wyoming Valley Airport (also owned by the county), and just west of the levee. In addition to the extensive trail system that was included as part of the Wyoming Valley Levee Raising Project, the county has developed two softball fields and many soccer fields.

The Tubs Nature Area
(also known as Seven Tubs Park)
Over hundreds of thousands of years ago, as Wheelbarrow Run cascaded down through the bedrock of Wyoming Mountain, the stream cut a path through three layers of bedrock, and created in the hard gray sandstone a remarkable geologic attraction – seven potholes or tubs – along which the county has created a rustic, forest trail with steps and bridges to accommodate hikers. Referred to as The Tubs Nature Area, geologists think the tubs were formed thousands of years ago during the last Ice Age. Basically, a melt-water stream broke through a glacier, which then caused a whirling motion of rock fragments, effectively carving seven potholes out of the bedrock. In addition to the short trail that works its way up and around the tubs, a longer trail loops around the adjacent Laurel Run. If you are an avid mountain biker, this trail is one of the more popular trails in Luzerne County.