Kernsville Dam Recreation Area

Kernsville Dam Recreation Area The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection owns this private property. No Trespassing signs are posted after the first parking lot.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection would like to remind Pennsylvania residents and visitors that the property along the Schuylkill River upstream of the Kernsville Dam to state Route 61 is not a public area and should not be used as such. Use of the property alongside and near the river, including Peace Rock, the dam, the beach area and all adjacent areas, is considered trespa

ssing, except to provide portage around the Kernsville Dam. There are features on the properties at Kernsville Dam that present hazards to unauthorized persons. Boaters are allowed to use the river, aside from the area immediately before and after the dam, in accordance with PA Fish and Boat Commission rules and regulations. However, the first parking lot is open to the public for access to the Bartram Trail.

06/03/2018
05/29/2018

The latest move to keep trespassers away from Peace Rock and the surrounding area in northern Berks County includes demolishing the Kernsville Dam.

05/22/2018

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection plans to remove Kernsville Dam by 2020.

05/22/2018

DEP seeks $10.8 million to remove Kernsville Dam, which would lower the water level of the dangerous swimming area.

12/20/2017
06/04/2017
06/04/2017

The Schuylkill River Greenways NHA (formerly Schuylkill River Heritage Area) is a National and State

05/17/2017
05/07/2017

Eight citations at The Rock

Reading Eagle
May 7, 2017

Tilden Township police said they cited eight people Saturday for trespassing at Kernsville Dam and the vicinity of The Rock.

Those cited were from Reading, Allentown, Orwigsburg and Whitehall, Lehigh County, police said. Names were not provided.

The Rock, also known as Peace Rock because of its painted peace symbol, is a 40-foot-high outcropping over the river between Port Clinton and Hamburg, upstream from the Kernsville Dam.

It's been a sore subject for neighbors in recent years because visitors - some from as far as New York and New Jersey - are drinking and doing drugs and often leaving mounds of trash behind.

People have also drowned there after jumping from The Rock.

The state intends to take down the dam, which would lower the water level at the Rock, making it unappealing to jump.

The money to take down the dam is in the state's 2017-18 budget but that has not been approved.

04/25/2017

Crowds of swimmers and jumpers flocked to The Rock and Kernsville Dam along the Schuylkill River in Tilden Township last summer. As the weather warms, the Department of Environmental Protection reminds people that the property is owned by the DEP and

04/19/2017

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