Tuscarora State Park in Locust Valley, west of Tamaqua, centers on Tuscarora Lake and Locust Mountain in a landscape shaped by Native occupation, industrial change, and later restoration. The park takes its name from the Tuscarora people, and the region was also controlled at different times by the Susquehannock, Lenape, and Iroquois League of Five Nations. Old-growth forest once covered the valley, but anthracite mining brought extensive logging, leaving the land prone to flooding, erosion, and wildfire. The Marchalonis family later restored much of this land, and after selling it to Pennsylvania in 1966, the area opened as a state park for fishing, boating, hiking, hunting, camping, and other seasonal recreation.