State Game Lands 12 for Hunters

State Game Land (SGL) 012 is located in the Pennsylvania Game Commission's Northeast Region. The property lies within Canton, Franklin, Leroy, and Overton Townships of Bradford County as well as Fox and Elkland Townships of Sullivan County. Leroy is the nearest populated town located approximately 1.3 miles to the north of the central portion of the game land. The Canton Borough is approximately 4.5 miles northwest of the western portion of SGL 012.

The nearest Food and Cover Headquarters is located on SGL 289 in West Burlington Township of Bradford County. Topography is best described as mountainous with many steep slopes rising from the valley bottoms to ridges and plateaued tops. Mountain top elevations reach up to 2,200 feet. SGL 012 is positioned in the Susquehanna River watershed and drainage of the topography is provided mainly by Schrader Creek and its tributaries Sugar Run and Little Schrader Creek.

State Game Land 012 has a well distributed diversity of land classification types that have components of a variety of hardwood and conifer tree species. The most common hardwood species are red maple, sugar maple, black cherry, American beech, black birch, white ash, aspen, and American basswood. Limited amounts of northern red oak, white oak, and chestnut oak are present in some stands across the game land.