• What to do: While Major Gen. Braddock's men where hacking their way from Maryland to Fort Duquesne, another road was being cut from Shippensburg through an unnamed gap in Tuscarora Mountain to deliver supplies to what is now Confluence, Pa. When Braddock's army was crushed in 1755 at the Battle of the Monongahela, near what is now Kennywood, work on the second road stopped near Berlin, Somerset County. Today at the once-vital mountain pass, Cowans Gap State Park offers a 42-acre lake, fishing, swimming, picnicking, 201 campsites and rustic cabins.

• Contact: 717-485-3948, www.dcnr.state.pa.us.

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