Friends of Yellow Creek is a member supported organization. All memberships and donations go directly to park projects. We support trail bridges, park cleanup, planting, invasive removal, outdoor programs, Eagle Scout projects, and more. If you have enjoyed a ride on the trails or a sail on the lake, you’ve benefited from the generosity of others. Please consider how you can help.
Join or donate to FOYC today.
From tree planting, to trail clearing, from running bike races to hosting sailing lessons, all of the activities and service the “Friends” provide to the Yellow Creek involve volunteers. As we look towards the end of the school year a special thanks to students from the IUP Cook Honors College who have stepped up to volunteer this season. We hope you have found it rewarding to give back to the park. Your help makes a difference. And we know you will continue to give back to your community, no matter where you end up after graduation.
Friends of Yellow Creek remembers our founding board member, Patrick F Gates, 86 of Nanty Glo, who passed away on March 17, 2023. Pat was an enthusiastic, no-nonsense volunteer. H was always ready to help, whether planting trees, registering bike racers, or building picnic tables. When we rehabbed a pontoon boat for the Friends group, Pat showed up with a battery he’d purchased for us at Walmart — “I thought this would be useful.” He also made connections and sought donations from other groups for the park. Pat was born April 10, 1936 in Hollsopple. Pat was a United States Marine Corp Veteran and retired from Bethlehem Steel. True to form, Pat made sure to renew his own membership for 2023, signing up in December, beating all the rest of us. Here he is pictured after helping us sink posts for a canoe rack at the lake.
FOYC members are invited to participate in a litter clean up day! We are part of the Adopt-a -Highway program and are responsible for a section of 422 near the park. Join a group of IUP students who have signed up to help. Safety signs, vests and gloves are provided to us by PennDOT. Coy’s pizza will be provided as a treat when we are done!
We will meet Saturday, Nov 12 at 11:00 AM in the Environmental Learning Center at Yellow Creek State Park. (Turn off route 422 at the main park entrance, continue past the park office, and look for the building on the left as the main lake comes into view. )
We hope you can join us!
If you can participate, please RSVP to friendsofyellowcreek@gmail.com
As this year comes to a close, we at FOYC would like to thank the volunteers who devoted many hours to the park, maintaining trails, organizing events, planting trees, running races, offering sailing lessons, etc. We will highlight their work in our January annual report.
Meanwhile, if you volunteered but did not “log” your hours, please help us accurately report this information but sharing your volunteer hours here.
Thanks to volunteers for installing a kayak rack at the FOYC Community Sailing base. A group of seven volunteers installed a pair of racks on Saturday on the north shore. The original racks were built on the south shore for FOYC by Luke Hamilton for an Eagle Scout project.
Now the racks have been repurposed and are available for friends storage. Would you like to keep a kayak at the park? Are you on the wait list for the McFeeter’s Cove racks? We have 12 bays available on a first-come, first-served basis. Donations of $130 are accepted for a seasonal rack space. (April 15-October 31). In order to fairly meet demand, we limit any family to one slot. Please contact FriendsOfYellowCreek@gmail.com for more information. Kayaks are stored at the owners’ risk; we encourage you to use a cable to lock it to the rack.
Please contact friendsofyellowcreek@gmail.com for more information.