Directions to the Bear Valley Picnic Area is secluded between Broad Mountain and Kittatinny Mountain in Franklin County. It may be reached from:
-Fort Loudon, by turning north on Bear Valley Road off old PA Route 30 on the east end of Fort Loudon -- a lovely wooded drive for 13 miles through the state game lands and state forest lands
-Route 533, Upper Strasburg Road, traveling west from Upper Strasburg to Keefer Road at the summit of Blue Mountain, then three miles south to the picnic area