Willow Springs Park

Pennsylvania, USA East
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Snorkeling and Scuba Diving at Willow Springs Park

Willow Springs Park is a lovely little scuba park on Millards Quarry Pond with tons of sunken attractions like cars, trains, boats, and other goodies. Water is COLD! Viz is usually about 10-20 feet at best. If you are familiar with Dutch Springs Scuba Park then you get the idea. Nice facilities, heated bathrooms, full service dive shop, swimming area, ramp for handicapped divers. From the Willow Springs web site: "Over 600,000 divers have safely certified with us at Willow Springs Park. You are invited to join them at one of the finest diving facilities in the Northeast. You'll find that we have designed the park specifically for your convenience and safety, with dozens of attractive features" All Divers: $20.00 a day, Non Divers: $6.00. Night Diving $10.00 by special arrangement. No Boats, No Pets. Season Passes Available ($140.00) Passes good March 1, 2005 to Feb. 28, 2006. Weekends 1st Weekend in March - Memorial Day, Daily - Memorial Day - Labor Day. Weekends Labor Day - To Weekend before Thanksgiving. WWW.WILLOWSPRINGSPARK.COM www.willowspringspark.com/WGdirect.htm gives you all the info you need to get to Richland, PA.
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Jason NYC
Jason NYC
Apr 11, 2005, 12:00 AM
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While Willow Springs doesn't boast the same reliable 30-50 ft visibility that some other local quarries have, it does feature really nice facilities and a full scuba shop. Plus, if you have non-divers in your group they can enjoy the brisk swimming area. Entry into the water is very easy and depths average 30-40 ft. The water is cold, I had 49 degrees at 39 feet in the summer. The visibility was maybe 5 ft but all the attractions were linked together with rope so navigation is easy as long as you have basic compass skills and the map to the various sunken cars and trucks. Viz was so bad at one point that we were on the deck of a boat and didn't realize what it was until we poked around. A great place for low viz practice and to get wet when waiting for a Coz fix. Watch the bottom. It's silty and thick. Great facilities with a full service shop with rentals and sales. Have fun!
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