Conashaugh Lakes, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Growers here do well with cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Conashaugh Lakes, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Conashaugh Lakes lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Conashaugh Lakes — the short answer
Conashaugh Lakes, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6a, about 177 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~177
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 6a is Conashaugh Lakes's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Conashaugh Lakes's 177-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Conashaugh Lakes
Each reading below is measured for Conashaugh Lakes itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredConashaugh Lakes runs about 177 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredConashaugh Lakes sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Conashaugh Lakes is in
Conashaugh Lakes sits in the North Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Conashaugh Lakes's own centroid rather than borrowed from Pike County.
What Grows in Conashaugh Lakes
Every plant below cleared Conashaugh Lakes's own zone 6a and its 177-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Conashaugh Lakes?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 18 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around Conashaugh Lakes
Spotted lanternfly documented 4 miles from Conashaugh Lakes, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Conashaugh Lakes
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Conashaugh Lakes. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PI 652Nitrate · 1800 ft
- LAKE ADVENTURE CAMPGROUNDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- PI 557Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- SUNNYLANDS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- PI 323Nitrate · 2.1 mi
- MXI HHW PIKE COUNTY PABrownfields · 2.2 mi
- GOLD KEY CCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- POCONO PLUMBING & ELECUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- PI 241Nitrate · 2.6 mi
- LORDS VALLEY CCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- PI 534Nitrate · 3.2 mi
- POCONO MTN LAKE FOREST COMMUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Conashaugh Lakes's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Conashaugh Lakes.
Total Sites
199
within ~10 miles of Conashaugh Lakes
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Conashaugh Lakes
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Conashaugh Lakes
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Conashaugh Lakes, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 116 sites within ~10 miles of Conashaugh Lakes. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
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Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Conashaugh Lakes
Everything above resolves to Conashaugh Lakes as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Conashaugh Lakes Average
Conashaugh Lakes Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Conashaugh Lakes
- ●One soil character for all of Conashaugh Lakes
- ●Frost dates read at Conashaugh Lakes's scale: Apr 24 to Oct 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Conashaugh Lakes's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Conashaugh Lakes
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Conashaugh Lakes, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Conashaugh Lakes averages can't show:
We read public map data around Conashaugh Lakes — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Conashaugh Lakes average
How we know this about Conashaugh Lakes
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Conashaugh Lakes’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Conashaugh Lakes
When does frost risk typically end in Conashaugh Lakes?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Conashaugh Lakes typically lands around Apr 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about May 15.
When is the first frost in Conashaugh Lakes?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Conashaugh Lakes typically arrives around Oct 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 4, so the watching starts about Sep 18 — about 177 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Conashaugh Lakes?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Conashaugh Lakes sees about 177 frost-free days — roughly Apr 24 through Oct 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 15 to Oct 4, about 142 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Conashaugh Lakes?
The federal record around Conashaugh Lakes shows 199 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (116), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.3 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Conashaugh Lakes?
From about Sep 18 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Oct 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Oct 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Conashaugh Lakes's scale — its 6a band and its 177-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Conashaugh Lakes's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Conashaugh Lakes’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Conashaugh Lakes's own scale — its own ~177-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,712 acres it covers and 199 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Conashaugh Lakes's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Conashaugh Lakes's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 24 and Oct 18 and the ~177-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 199 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Conashaugh Lakes, the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Conashaugh Lakes's boundary and the 1,712 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~177-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Conashaugh Lakes's own centroid, the North Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Conashaugh Lakeslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Conashaugh Lakes's 1,712 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pike County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pike County
- The growing challenges every Pennsylvania grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Pennsylvania
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Pike County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Conashaugh Lakes's 1,712 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Conashaugh Lakes you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,712 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Conashaugh Lakes-wide figureread your own land →