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Beech Mountain Lakes Pennsylvania Map

Explore Beech Mountain Lakes, Pennsylvania, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Beech Mountain Lakes, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Beech Mountain Lakes, Pennsylvania Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Beech Mountain Lakes, Pennsylvania. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Pennsylvania or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Beech Mountain Lakes.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Beech Mountain Lakes
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Luzerne County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	41.04158
Longitude	-75.935454
Population	2,157
Density	536.3 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	18222
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Wilkes-Barre
School District	Hazleton Area School District

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About Beech Mountain Lakes, Pennsylvania

Beech Mountain Lakes is a locality in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,157. The population density is 536.3 people per km². Beech Mountain Lakes is located at 41.0416°N, 75.9355°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 18222.

Beech Mountain Lakes occupies a rugged stretch of the Allegheny Plateau where the earth folds into the deep, shaded basin of Hells Kitchen. It lies 6.1 miles north-northeast of Hazleton, PA (from Hazleton, PA: bearing 20°T), and is situated 9.3 miles south-southwest of Mountain Top. Oley Creek carves a narrow, winding path through the surrounding woodland, its dark waters moving with a deliberate, cold persistence toward the lower reaches of the landscape. The surface of Lake of the Four Seasons catches the flat, gray light of late afternoon, mirroring the hemlocks and hardwoods that stand in dense, silent ranks along the shoreline. To the distant horizon, the jagged silhouette of the Pocono Mountains rises against the sky, a reminder of the immense geological pressure that once shaped these deep, quiet hollows. The air here carries the scent of damp pine needles and wet stone, a heavy, grounded atmosphere that persists long after the sun dips behind the ridge lines.

Beech Mountain Lakes preserves the quiet legacy of a region defined by the slow transition from anthracite extraction to residential seclusion. While the echoes of the coal industry have largely faded from the immediate economy, the character of the land remains deeply tethered to the labor and grit of the past. Residents often seek the quiet borders of Nescopeck State Park, where the forest has begun to reclaim the scars of earlier industrial efforts, allowing the natural cycle of growth to soften the edges of the terrain. The pace of life in Beech Mountain Lakes is governed by the shifting seasons of the plateau, favoring a deliberate solitude that contrasts with the busier, brick-lined centers of the state. Daily existence here moves with the quietude of the woods, where the primary rhythm is dictated by the turning of the leaves and the cooling of the creek as winter approaches.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Nescopeck State Park (State Park) — 1.3 mi, 010° N
State Game Land 187 (State Resource Management Area) — 1.8 mi, 345° N
Celentano Land Acquisition (Local Recreation) — 2.1 mi, 132° SE
4th Ward Playground (Local Recreation) — 2.1 mi, 132° SE
Butler Township Community Park (Local Park) — 2.1 mi, 260° W
Pinchot State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 2.1 mi, 142° SE
Sgl 187 (State Recreation Area) — 2.8 mi, 091° E
Freedom Park (Local Park) — 3.5 mi, 247° SW
Lattimer Massacre Monument (Monument) — 3.8 mi, 206° SW
National Shrine of the Sacred Heart (Monument) — 4.4 mi, 203° SW
Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 5.6 mi, 221° SW
Nittany Lion Shrine (Public Artwork) — 6.4 mi, 232° SW
Pinchot (State Wilderness) — 7.6 mi, 015° N
Sgl 149 (State Recreation Area) — 7.8 mi, 109° E
Lehigh Gorge State Park (State Park) — 8.4 mi, 084° E
Buttermilk Falls (Viewpoint) — 10.7 mi, 117° SE
The Big Cow (Attraction) — 13.3 mi, 014° N
Wilkes-Barre Movies 14 (Cinema) — 14.2 mi, 011° N
The Mary Stegmaier Mansion (Attraction) — 14.2 mi, 010° N
Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts (Arts Centre) — 14.2 mi, 009° N
KISS Theatre Company (Theatre) — 14.9 mi, 017° N
Arts Center of Wilkes-Barre (Arts Centre) — 15.3 mi, 014° N
Berwick Historic Society (Museum) — 15.7 mi, 274° W
Galerie B (Gallery) — 15.9 mi, 140° SE
Split Rock (Attraction) — 16.4 mi, 085° E
100 Mile View (Attraction) — 16.4 mi, 142° SE
Pennsylvania Performing Arts Academy (Theatre) — 17.0 mi, 186° S
Shellhamer Ice Dam (Historic Ruins) — 18.0 mi, 184° S
Battle of Wyoming (Registered Battlefield) — 18.8 mi, 014° N
Appalachian National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 23.1 mi, 160° S · 110k acres

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