{"id":240148,"date":"2026-07-10T12:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/240148\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:30:10","slug":"pennsylvania-wilds-purple-lizard-launch-dark-sky-rec-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/240148\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Wilds, Purple Lizard Launch Dark Sky Rec Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

On July 9, Pennsylvania Wilds<\/a> and Purple Lizard Maps<\/a> announced that a new map is now available, highlighting one of Pennsylvania\u2019s most remote landscapes, bringing together hiking trails, gravel cycling routes, backroads, camping areas and exceptional night skies in a single, comprehensive map, according to the PA Environment Digest Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Dark Skies\/Susquehannock State Forest Purple Lizard Map<\/a> is the first in a new, co-branded Pennsylvania Wilds map series designed to support exploration and connection across the rural region.<\/p>\n

Centered in northcentral Pennsylvania, the map covers the entirety of the 265,000-acre Susquehannock State Forest along with portions of Sproul and Elk State Forests, and the surrounding communities of Renovo, Emporium, Smethport, Port Allegany, Coudersport, and Galeton.<\/p>\n

This area of the Pennsylvania Wilds is widely recognized for its vast, undeveloped landscape and some of the darkest skies in the eastern United States.<\/p>\n

The Dark Skies landscape offers a rare combination of expansive public lands, quiet backroads, small-town character, and exceptional stargazing opportunities.<\/p>\n

To read more, click here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On July 9, Pennsylvania Wilds and Purple Lizard Maps announced that a new map is now available, highlighting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-240148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240148","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=240148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}