Firearms and archery equipment may be uncased and ready for use only in authorized hunting areas during hunting seasons. In areas not open to hunting or during non-hunting seasons, firearms and archery equipment must be kept in the owner s car, trailer or camp. Hunting is also permitted on the adjacent state forest lands. For complete information on hunting rules and regulations in Pennsylvania, visit the Pennsylvania Game Commission Web site . Terrain is moderately hilly to mountainous.
Ice skating is available on the Doubling Gap Lake when ice conditions permit.
There are 2.5-acres maintained and monitored for ice skating on the lake. Skating is permitted from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m. and lighting is provided. Concession A food and refreshment concession is available near the beach during the summer season. Revolutionary War veteran for whom the park is named, was never a colonel but he is deserving of a place in history for his manufacturing of wrought iron cannon. William Denning served his country as a sergeant from March 1778 to April 1780 in Nathanial Irish's Company of Artillery Artificers in Benjamin Flower's Regiment.