Hallton in the Allegheny National Forest

This old trailer is right on Spring Creek in the little hamlet of Hallton.  It's nothing fancy.  Two bedrooms, an add-on porch, no running water.

It sits right on the water, maybe half a mile from the spot where Spring Creek joins the Clarion River.

This is the view from the yard!

This, too, is from the yard--looking upstream.

Can you believe that this lovely place is for sale?  The asking price was only $35,000, but now the seller is going to accept the highest bid.  (And so I no longer believe I've got a ghost of a chance.)  She could easily get $100,000 for a place right on the water.  The old trailer isn't worth more than a few thousand dollars, but the lot is magnificent. 

Here's the view from the yard looking downstream toward the Clarion National Scenic River.

Other houses on the water in Hallton tend to be really quite nice.

Well kept and frequently visited.

Some few looked as if they might be lived-in year round.

A lot of them have silly names.  This is the Dad-Son-Club.

This is probably the kind of thing that will go up where that old trailer now sits.

Once you get away from the water, the camps are less well maintained.  In fact, a lot of them appear to be abandoned.  I wish the owners would put them on the market.  I'd love to own a little place like this!  It's one of my life's few remaining dreams.

Or even this....

There's a lot of old garbage and debris sitting in the yards of these bandos.  This old school bus probably used to serve as a bunkroom.  

The roof is pretty far gone on this place, but you'd probably just tear it down and build something new.  

You could keep kayaks at your camp up here and paddle from Spring Creek and out onto the river.  This is the Clarion River as seen from the center of Hallton, near the William Tell Bridge.  I wonder how the bridge got such a name.  An old house in this village is home to a bar that was once known as the Hallton Hilton.