Woodchuck Hunting in Pennsylvania

Every groundhog segment this license year

2 Season rows cover woodchucks this year; tap a WMU code for that unit’s full calendar.

Fine print from the season table

• No limit. Solid fluorescent orange hat required.

From the Pennsylvania Game Commission seasons and bag limits and the 2026-27 digest, checked October 12, 2026.

Mapped public land for woodchucks

The map pins up to 80 of the 79 tracts that list groundhog; the table starts with the 15 largest. Look for the star: those descriptions name woodchucks.

Further groundhog options

Nescopeck State Park (3,500 ac) · Nockamixon State Park (3,500 ac) · Swatara State Park (3,500 ac) · Black Moshannon State Park (3,000 ac) · Shawnee State Park (3,000 ac) · Codorus State Park (2,800 ac) · Gouldsboro State Park (2,700 ac) · Kings Gap Environmental Education Center (2,500 ac) · Yellow Creek State Park (2,300 ac) · Laurel Hill State Park (2,200 ac) · McConnells Mill State Park (2,200 ac) · Gifford Pinchot State Park (1,945 ac) · Big Elk Creek State Park (1,800 ac) · White Clay Creek Preserve (1,800 ac) · Beltzville State Park (1,700 ac) · Little Pine State Park (1,700 ac) · Locust Lake State Park (1,700 ac) · Prompton State Park (1,400 ac) · Promised Land State Park (1,300 ac) · Ridley Creek State Park (1,200 ac) · Mount Pisgah State Park (1,100 ac) · Tuscarora State Park (1,100 ac) · Maurice K. Goddard State Park (1,075 ac) · Clear Creek State Park (1,000 ac) · Evansburg State Park (1,000 ac) · Marsh Creek State Park (1,000 ac) · Boyd Big Tree Preserve Conservation Area (975 ac) · Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center (937 ac) · Lackawanna State Park (900 ac) · Ryerson Station State Park (900 ac) · Susquehanna Riverlands State Park (900 ac) · Big Pocono State Park (800 ac) · Keystone State Park (800 ac) · Salt Springs State Park (800 ac) · Joseph E. Ibberson Conservation Area (780 ac) · Caledonia State Park (740 ac) · Chapman State Park (700 ac) · Frances Slocum State Park (700 ac) · Cowans Gap State Park (630 ac) · Vosburg Neck State Park (575 ac) · Canoe Creek State Park (550 ac) · Erie Bluffs State Park (500 ac) · Raymond B. Winter State Park (487 ac) · Poe Valley State Park (450 ac) · Warriors Path State Park (349 ac) · Linn Run State Park (300 ac) · Little Buffalo State Park (300 ac) · Kinzua Bridge State Park (275 ac) · Worlds End State Park (265 ac) · Varden Conservation Area (256 ac) · Leonard Harrison State Park (250 ac) · Greenwood Furnace State Park (188 ac) · Delaware Canal State Park (172 ac) · Whipple Dam State Park (114 ac) · Archbald Pothole State Park (100 ac) · Colton Point State Park (100 ac) · Reeds Gap State Park (100 ac) · Trough Creek State Park (100 ac) · Hyner Run State Park (90 ac) · Pine Grove Furnace State Park (75 ac) · plus 4 more

County guides for woodchucks

• Chester County4 tracts
• Luzerne County4 tracts
• Wayne County4 tracts
• Bedford County3 tracts
• Carbon County3 tracts
• Cumberland County3 tracts
• Huntingdon County3 tracts
• Monroe County3 tracts
• Schuylkill County3 tracts
• Somerset County3 tracts
• Westmoreland County3 tracts
• York County3 tracts
• Bucks County2 tracts
• Butler County2 tracts
• Cambria County2 tracts

PGC State Game Lands GIS, DCNR forest and park hunting pages and federal managers (PGC layers), retrieved 2026-10-12. Species lists are what each manager names; area rules still apply.

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