Cook Forest Bridges are closing – trails will be closing
How else can you help?
Spread the word!
- Hike the trails, take pictures of Cook Forest, and post them with the tag #CFSPbridges
- Share CFC posts, events, and news on social media, and encourage friends and family to help as well
- Create a Facebook fundraiser to benefit the trails
- Buy a classy CFC t-shirt and show your support!
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Six of the trail bridges crossing Tom’s Run in Cook Forest State Park are aging out of service, and must be replaced. The first casualty was the busy bridge linking CCC pavilion #1 picnic area to the Forest Cathedral network of trails, which was shuttered during the Summer of 2019. While this closure can be circumvented, many cannot, and beautiful Liggett Trail, which the multi-state North Country Trail follows, will be unpassable as closures continue. Click here for a map of the Cook Forest bridges slated for closure.
These bridges are essential, and their closure is unacceptable.
The park wants to replace these bridges, but doesn’t have the funds available, and may not during the foreseeable future. Until Pennsylvania properly funds its state park system – which brings $1.15 billion to the PA economy, yet currently has a maintenance backlog exceeding $500 million due to continual funding cuts – they’re leaving it up to us.
