{"id":228083,"date":"2026-06-25T18:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/228083\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T18:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:53:07","slug":"section-of-lake-scranton-walking-trail-to-close-for-nearly-two-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/228083\/","title":{"rendered":"Section of Lake Scranton walking trail to close for nearly two months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A portion of the popular Lake Scranton walking trail will be temporarily closed beginning Friday as Pennsylvania American Water conducts work in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The utility announced that a section of the path will be closed to pedestrians from June 26 through Aug. 21.<\/p>\n<p>The closure affects the stretch of trail between the small stone bridge, where the walking path meets the roadway, and the Lake Scranton dam near the fishing pier.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania American Water said the closure is being implemented as a safety precaution because of a high volume of traffic expected on the adjacent roadway.<\/p>\n<p>The company is reminding visitors not to bypass closed gates or fencing to access the restricted section of the trail.<\/p>\n<p>The remainder of the Lake Scranton walking path will remain open during the temporary closure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A portion of the popular Lake Scranton walking trail will be temporarily closed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-228083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}