When you get up into the Laurel Highlands--the hilly-but-not-quite-mountainous-area just southeast of Pittsburgh--everything is named after laurels, which are the state flower.
Up there, you've got Laurel Summit State Park, Laurel Ridge State Park, Laurel Mountain State Park, and Laurel Hill State Park, which is the lovely place pictured here.
The little human-made waterfall in the second photo flows out of an upland pond, picture here, and into a brook that joins the larger lake, where there's a swimming beach with concession stand, boat rentals, and almost no people.
There's a nice trail system here that joins up with the trails in the adjacent Forbes State Forest. How is it that I don't spend every Saturday of my life up here?
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