Shenango Lake Mahaney Spruce Cove Trails End Rolling Meadows Skyline Picnic Shelters

Situated within the suburban Shenango Valley, Shenango Lake provides an attractive setting where visitors can spend the day picnicking, camping, fishing, boating, or enjoying nature's beauty at one of the lake's many recreation areas. The Mahaney Rec Area Day Use is located off Kelly Road in Hermitage, PA, adjacent to the Shenango Dam, and provides four covered group picnic shelters — Trails End, Spruce Cove, Skyline and Rolling Meadows — with electric, plus a disc golf course and access to the lake for boating and fishing. Each of the four shelters accommodates between 42 and 56 people, depending on whether tables are used at 6 or 8 people each. Grills are on site, and flush toilets and drinking water are provided at the restrooms adjacent to the shelters (seasonal). A children's playground sits next to the Spruce Cove shelter, the interpretive Seth Myers hiking trail is near Trails End, and swing sets and a large soccer field are near Skyline and Rolling Meadows. The area boasts an 18-hole disc golf course. The Mahaney Outflow Rec Area is a short distance away, featuring the Shenango Dam and Outflow — a concrete gravity dam — as well as great fishing at the outflow and river. Around the lake there is picnicking, camping, fishing, boating, swimming, hiking, wildlife viewing and hunting, with areas provided for unlimited horsepower operation as well as restricted horsepower and minimum wake operation. Many fishing enthusiasts are attracted to the waters of Shenango for the crappie, bass, walleye, catfish and muskellunge that inhabit the river, lake and tailwaters, and campers visiting the lake will enjoy spacious facilities at the 330-site campground. Shenango Lake stretches 11 miles up its namesake river, covering over 11,000 acres. The shore is lined with a northern hardwood forest of shady and colorful trees such as black cherry, beech, maple and hemlock; deer, turkey and other small game are plentiful, with excellent opportunities to observe osprey and eagles. The Shenango and Mahaney Recreation Areas feature restoration chestnut tree orchards managed through a partnership with the American Chestnut Foundation for research and education, with the goal of developing blight resistant American chestnut trees. Nearby, the Shenango Water Trail provides 7.5 miles of scenic river corridor for paddlers with three access points between Kidds Mill Park and Big Bend — life jackets must be worn on all canoes and kayaks — the historic Kidds Mill Covered Bridge features the unique "Smith-Truss" design from the 1800s, and remnants of the Erie Extension Canal can be found in Sharpsville below the Shenango Dam.