The guest speaker at the Feb 9 Rotary Luncheon at Lazybrook was Nick Sulzer, the new Manager of the Vosburg Neck State Park, Wyoming County's first state park. It was announced by Gov Tom Wolf in Sept, 2022, but the final paperwork was not signed until December and hiring started in Jan 2023.  They will be hiring an Environmental Education Specialist to develop programming for the Park.
 
The park is 667 acres and will eventually have access to the river for kayakers and boaters. It will be a passive recreation park, with walking/biking and hiking trails, picnicking and water-based recreation on the North Branch of the Susquehanna River. They are talking with Camp Lackawanna to see what is overlapping and how it will be handled. 
 
Although not starting from scratch since the land was known as the Howland Preserve, owned by the North Branch Land Trust and the trails etc were maintained by the Friends of Howland, they will have to build and acquire the equipment and infrastructure for a State Park. 
 
There is a lot of history to the area. The railroad originally ran there and the railbed is a shared biking and walking trail. You can also still see part of the canal bed from the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Apples were a great part of what was grown in this area due to moisture from the river.
 

Nick Sulzer