Brookville Lake State Park
Guide

Brookville Lake State Park has over nine thousand acres open to hunting woodland, upland, and furbearer species. Rabbit hunting, migratory game bird and waterfowl hunting are allowed within the hunting areas. Hunting permits are required to hunt in the park. All game taken at the park are required to be recorded on a one-day hunter permit card to be carried by hunters in the park. Trapping opportunities are available in the park through a sealed bidding process for specific trapping units.

The Brookville Reservoir in the park, which became operational in 1974, provides wonderful fishing opportunities at Brookville Lake State Park. With a maximum depth of 140 feet and average depth of 30 feet, the lake is stocked with various fish species. As anglers and campers enjoy fishing on the lake, they catch channel catfish, striped bass, muskellunge, walleye, largemouth bass, white bass, black crappie, bluegill, redear, rock bass, smallmouth bass, rainbow trout and brown trout. Other fish species in the lake include carp, gizzard shad, white sucker, minnows and darters. Blue-green algae is found in the lakes year-round, but don't let that put you off.

Brookville Lake State Park features more than 50 miles of trails for the hiking pleasure of RV campers at the park. These trails range in difficulty from easy to rugged and pass through various interesting points in the park. The one and a half-mile Fairfield Trail, for example, travels by the lakeshore up through an old pine plantation and crop fields, while the moderately-difficult two miles to four and a half-mile-long Glidewell trail takes hikers past a 2,000-year old Native American mound in the park. Other trails to enjoy hiking on at the park include the two-mile Templeton Creek Trail, 0.7-mile Wildlife Wander Trail, two-mile Garr Hill Trail, three-mile paved Scenic Trail, five-mile Woodland Trail, two-mile Eagle Trail, one and a half-mile Bonwell Trail, two-mile Midway Trail, and 16.5-mile Wolf Creek Trail. These multiple hiking options provides RV campers with amazing opportunities at the park.

There are two beaches at the Brookville Reservoir in Brookville Lake State Park available for swimming – Mounds Beach and Quakertown Beach. These beaches offer campers the opportunity to enjoy swimming while on vacation at the park or just on a visit, and the Mounds Beach, for example, gets up to 5,000 visitors on a hot summer day.

Boating is a well-loved activity at Brookville Lake State Park. The Brookville Reservoir provides unique boating activities for RV campers with unlimited horsepower and large areas of idle zone available. The park also has 10 boat ramps ranging from one-lane to large lanes for almost any pleasure boat. All the boat ramps in the park are equipped with picnicking and restroom facilities.

Brookville Lake State Park features various trees and wildlife. The open fields in the park and the early successional areas include honey and black locust, black cherry, soft maples, white ash, sumac, dogwood, hackberry, elm, boxelder, sassafras and hawthorn. Appalachian species such as yellow buckeye and white basswood. Turkey, white-tailed deer and bald eagle are also present in the park.