Appalachian Trail - Duncannon Entrance — Attraction in Penn Township

This section of AT, typically starts with hikers making their way across the Clarks Ferry bridge down off of Cove mountain and through the town of Duncannon. There’s a fairly steep ascent to top of Peters Mtn but one can take the Susquehanna trail about .25 mile up to avoid one mile of AT and it’s not as steep. This section of AT is 6.5 miles from railroad track at commuter parking lot at bridge at the junction of 322/22 and 147 over to the AT walk over bridge over 225. There is a parking lot there as well(225) at top of the mountain. There is a section of this trail that has a decent rock scramble with a little technical aspect to it so I would say dogs are probably not recommended on this...

Great hiking area. I love geology and spent my hiking time collecting a few rocks. Some group of people thought that collecting rocks was suspicious, and instead of saying hello or asking questions they called 911 to report me. The State Trooper lady was awesome laughing at these folks as looking at & collecting rocks is far from a crime.

Other than that, this...

It was a wonderful wonderful hike to the top of the Hawk Rock. I did it on January 22nd with 6 in of snow in the ground and when I got to the top at 11:35 a.m. it was 2° actual temperature minus 11 with the wind chill. I smiled the whole way several stops to warm my hands under my armpits other than that it was a very tranquil and beautiful...