Click the photo to enlarge it. 211 KB Named for a man who greatly expanded the Pennsylvania state park system, Maurice K. Goddard State Park features the 1,860-acre Lake Wilhelm. Besides the great water sports like fishing and boating, M. K. Goddard is a great park for watching wildlife. The large lake, abundant wetlands, old fields and mature forests provide a diversity of habitats that attract wildlife in all seasons. On a trip here you might see bald eagle, osprey, loon, teal, merganser, woodcock and many species of warblers.
Turtles abound by the marina.
As you can see in the photo, it is a beautiful park, especially in the autumn. Click the photo to enlarge it. Once this peaceful valley rang with that and other colorful expressions used to describe oil. If you were at Oil Creek 130 years ago, it would not be an idyllic scene like in this photo. Instead, there would be tons of activity as people rushed around setting up oil rigs to drill for oil.