Big Loop

Big Loop is a campsite in Luzerne, Pennsylvania. Big Loop is situated nearby to the ranger station Park Office, as well as near the reservoir Lake Rose.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Lake Rose and Ganoga Lake.

Lake Rose

Reservoir

Lake Rose is a dry lake in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It has a surface area of approximately 25 acres, and is situated in Fairmount Township.

Ganoga Lake is a natural lake in Colley Township in southeastern Sullivan County in Pennsylvania, United States. Known as Robinson's Lake and Long Pond for most of the 19th century, the lake was purchased by the Ricketts family in the early 1850s and became part of R.

Clemuel Ricketts Mansion

House

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Clemuel Ricketts Mansion is a Georgian-style house made of sandstone, built in 1852 or 1855 on the shore of Ganoga Lake in Colley Township, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, United States. Clemuel Ricketts Mansion is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Big Loop.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ricketts and Mossville.

Ricketts

Hamlet

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Ricketts is a ghost town that was established as a lumber mill company town in Sullivan and Wyoming counties, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Ricketts was built in 1890 along Mehoopany Creek in both Colley Township in Sullivan County and Forkston Township in Wyoming County for sawmills of the Trexler and Turrell Lumber Company. Ricketts is situated 3½ miles north of Big Loop.

Mossville

Hamlet

Mossville is an unincorporated community in Fairmount Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. Mossville is situated 5 miles south of Big Loop.

Big Loop

Type: Campsite
Categories: tourism and camping
Location: Luzerne, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.34195° or 41° 20′ 31″ north

Longitude

-76.2984° or 76° 17′ 54″ west

Open location code

87H58PR2+QJ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 110150365

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=camp_site

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