Worlds End and Loyalsocks are magnificent and adjacent Pennsylvanian State Parks in the north-central part of the state. Thanks to the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Worlds End’s forests were replanted, and now Hemlock, Yellow Birch, and Red Maple join other tree species in a remarkably diverse ecology. The American environmentalist and state governor Gifford Pinchot founded the park in 1932, and the loop “Loyalsocks-Links Trail” transverses both Worlds End and the Loyalsocks park. The name “Loyalsocks” is not referring to some long-lost baseball team, but rather to the American Indian Lenape word “Lawi-saquick,” or “middle creek.”
