![]() With a little skill and some perseverance you can actually push your way back into the swamp quite a ways. Little streams drain from the actual swamp into the lake here. There are numerous coves and inlets there. Black Jack Swamp is a 725 acre area ,set aside for no development. In this area are two natural areas, Black Jack Swamp and Clark Island. But my favorite part of the lake is the extreme Northern shore. A little piece of New England right here in Western PA. Its fun to paddle up the main channel and then duck into little coves where picturesque sail boats bob at moor in the many marinas on the Ohio side. There is a fair amount of boat traffic in season but there is a 10 horsepower limit lots of sail boats. You can access both the Ohio park office and the PA park office from the water, both states have a park on the reservoir. When you are out in the middle (Its not quite a mile across), you have Ohio on one side, and PA on the other. There are a couple of islands, most notably "Stockers Island". On the PA side there are many private homes. Along the shore are numerous campsites, picnic areas, marinas and boat launches. In this section, running from the PA park office to the PA 285/Ohio 85 causeway its like a huge deep-water estuary. The western part of the lake has the Ohio and Pennsylvania state lines running down the middle. It is several lakes all in the same place.
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