Clayton Park Recreational Area

Specialties

What flavor is our campground? We offer seasonal and overnight camping for everything from large motorhomes to primitive tent camping.

Much like a chocolate chip cookie, we are the chocolate chips to the Lake Henry cookie. We offer camping, fishing, boating, live music, and multiple opportunities for live animal education.

Beautiful Lake Henry is over 300 surface acres and is the second largest lake in Wayne County, great for fishing and boating.

Our Campfire Music Series takes place lakeside with local musicians and runs every Saturday evening from 8pm to 10pm between Memorial Weekend and Labor Day weekend.

Our animal education includes visits from Pocono Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, K&L Creepy Creatures, Delaware Valley Raptor Center and more.

History

Established in 1900.

Clayton Park was originally known as Swoyer’s Landing and operated as a picnic grove and boat livery on a small farm in the early 1900’s. Lake Henry began as Silkman’s Pond and was home to several ice houses and a chair factory. The city of Scranton had a railroad which ran to Lake Henry where city folk could enjoy picnics on Lake Henry. Currently owned and operated by a member of the Swoyer Family, Clayton Park is now a 70 acre vacation departure where we work hard to create a unique experience, at the heart of which are the fundamentals of camping, fishing, and boating.

Meet the Business Owner

Sonya Z.

Business Owner

Clayton Park is a labor of love for Sonya Zacker and her fiancé Maurice Gilmore who operate Clayton Park with the help of Sonya’s cousins Harry and Connie Swoyer and some wonderful workampers. Sonya also works as an IT Auditor in the District of Columbia in order to sustain her business and keep her family tradition on Lake Henry. Maurice works environmental contracts around the country in the off-​season.

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