About Indian Trails

We're located on Log Tavern Pond, a few miles outside of Milford, PA, in Dingmans Ferry. Indian Trails is a low-key community that retains a feeling of privacy and quiet, thanks to the relatively small number of houses.  

Originally a summer camp, the community was founded by some of the original campers and staff of Camp Indian Trails. There is not a lot of public information about the camp or the lake's history, and if you'd like to add something to this profile, please email us. One of our neighbors, however, did publish a short history of Camp Indian Trails. Judy (Miller) Feller's parents owned Camp Log Tavern/Camp Indian Trails, and her website includes a section called "The Miller years, 1944-1962". We share it here, and we thank her: 

• “Log Tavern began life in 1922 as a tennis camp. The original owners went broke building the courts on what was then a swamp next to the Cove, the lake’s outlet.

• “The lake was the main attraction of the camp. A 90-acre, spring-fed lake of glacial origin, it is 2 1/2 miles in circumference and one mile across. It remains cold, clear, and free of surface algae in summer’s heat or during droughts. Before ice machines became available, ice was harvested from the lake and stored, packed in sawdust, in the Ice House behind the kitchen. Beginning in 1958, an American Red Cross Aquatics School was held at the Camp Indian Trails. During one of the School’s sessions, scuba driver attempted to find the bottom of the lake. They dove to ninety feet, but the water became too murky to dive deeper.

• “In addition to swimming, boating, and canoeing, fishing was a popular activity. The lake is home to pickerel, bass, sunfish, perch, and catfish. In the early 1950s, a drift of DDT from gypsy moth spraying decimated the fish population, but it eventually recovered and was later augmented by private stocking with lake trout.

• "The U.S. Geological Survey’s 1917 edition of the Milford quadrangle shows two lakes close together, and designated, Big Log Tavern Pond (now called Gold Key Lake) and “Little Log Tavern Pond¨ - our Lake Log Tavern. Big Log Tavern Pond was at one time the Annenberg Estate, but changed hands several times before becoming the site of Gold Key.”