17 Free Swimming Holes near Taylor, PA
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Roaring Brook
Dunmore, Pennsylvania
5.6 miles EA beautiful and remote swimming hole between two reservoirs, with many pools up and down the creek — slippery moss on the rocks, rugged 4WD access required, and pack out all your trash.
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Gouldsboro State Park Beach
Gouldsboro
17.3 miles SEGouldsboro Lake's sand beach is free and open, but unguarded: no lifeguards, tannic amber water you cannot see through, and occasional bacteria closures. Electric motors only on this 250-acre Pocono lake.
Canoe, Hike, Kayak, Mountain Bike, Swim
Tobyhanna Lake Beach
Tobyhanna
20.5 miles SEA free, tannin-dark swimming beach on 170-acre Tobyhanna Lake in the Poconos, open 8 a.m. to sunset from Memorial Day weekend to mid-September with no lifeguard on duty. The lake will be drained for dam replacement from spring 2027 through the end of 2028
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Tobyhanna State Park Beach
Tobyhanna
20.6 miles SEA free, unguarded sand beach on 170-acre Tobyhanna Lake, set at 2,000 feet on the Pocono plateau, with a 5.1 mile gravel trail circling the water. Open Memorial Day weekend to mid-September, though a full lake drawdown for dam replacement has been announc
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Hickory Run State Park
Renovo, Pennsylvania
24.3 miles SSwim near Renovo, Pennsylvania
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Promised Land Main Beach
Greentown
26.5 miles EPromised Land Main Beach is the larger of two sand beaches at Promised Land State Park, a pale sand shelf on the 422-acre Promised Land Lake in the park's Day Use Picnic Area. It is open daily from late May to mid-September, 8:00 A.M. to sunset, with no l
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Devil's Well
Hawley, Pennsylvania
28.3 miles ECLOSED. The Devils Well is located on private property owned by Brookfield Energy. It is fenced and violators car info is taken and forwarded to local police. KEEP OUT!!!. A scenic 3-mile woodland hike to a Pocono swimming hole famous with cliff-jumping daredevils near Hawley.
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Little Shickshinny Creek Falls
Shickshinny, Pennsylvania
29.5 miles SWSwim near Shickshinny, Pennsylvania
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Ricketts Glen State Park
Benton, Pennsylvania
30.2 miles WSwim near Benton, Pennsylvania
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Red Rock
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
34.6 miles SECrystal-clear water beneath a 60-ft railroad bridge on Brodhead Creek — with 60- and 80-foot jumping platforms, a rope swing, and calmer spots for a refreshing swim.
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Beltzville State Park Beach
Lehighton
37.2 miles SA 525 foot sand beach on Beltzville Lake, the Army Corps reservoir that flooded the Pohopoco Creek valley in 1971. Free to enter, open late May through Labor Day, no lifeguards, and worth checking for a bacteria closure before you go.
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Jim Thorpe Area
Renovo, Pennsylvania
38.4 miles SSwim near Renovo, Pennsylvania
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Skinner's Falls Main Beach
Cochecton, New York
38.5 miles NEGravel beach and bedrock ledges on the Delaware River at Skinners Falls, the best known rapid on the Upper Delaware and a long standing swimming and tubing stop.
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Smithfield Beach
Winona Lakes, Pennsylvania
42.4 miles SEA grassy Delaware River beach with swimming (lifeguards seasonal), a boat and canoe launch, and a popular 7-mile float to Delaware Water Gap.
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Worlds End State Park Swimming Area
Forksville
45.7 miles WA one acre pool on Loyalsock Creek held back by a dam the Civilian Conservation Corps built in the 1930s, free to reach and open Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day. It is closed the rest of the year, there is no lifeguard, and swimming anywhere else i
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Trestle Bridge
Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania
47.5 miles SETrestle Bridge is a local Delaware River swimming and jumping spot near Portland, in Upper Mount Bethel Township, Pennsylvania, where the river forms the Pennsylvania-New Jersey line at the southern...
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Milford Area
Greencastle, Pennsylvania
47.5 miles ESwim near Greencastle, Pennsylvania
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