A sixteen-mile Army Corps reservoir. Ohiopyle whitewater twenty minutes downriver.
Yough Lake runs sixteen miles through the Laurel Highlands, dammed by the Army Corps of Engineers at Confluence — the region's best powerboat and water-skiing water, with Ohiopyle's Class I through IV whitewater a short drive downriver.
Youghiogheny River Lake sits in the Laurel Highlands of southwestern Pennsylvania, a sixteen-mile Army Corps of Engineers reservoir straddling Somerset and Fayette counties. Confluence, at the lake's outflow, is the small town at its center — a weekend café, a seasonal espresso counter, a full-service grocery, and six public boat launches spread along the shoreline. Twenty minutes downriver, Ohiopyle State Park runs the region's whitewater trade: the Middle Yough beginner-friendly, the Lower Yough guided-trip-only. Locals just call the reservoir Yough Lake.
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