Ken Bisbee News Today

This Saturday, most attending the Ohiopyle Wine and Arts Fest are hoping to pick up a nice bottle of their favorite wine, but Ken Bisbee will be there for an entirely different reason. The former Ohiopyle State Park Operations Manager, who retired in April, will return to the small town he once called home to […]

Continuing bands of rain in Fayette County caused more flooding in areas already hit hard from earlier wet weather, prompting the mayor of Brownsville to declare a state of emergency in the borough. “Most of us have been battling this the entire night,” said Mayor Ross Swords, who’s also a volunteer firefighter with Brownsville Fire […]

Julie Ann Moore thought she was going on a beginner-friendly whitewater rafting trip, one that would be appropriate for her 13-year-old twin daughters. The Ohio woman sent text messages to her mother-in-law and a friend that said she and the girls were going to meet her boyfriend of two years,

Jurors in a coroner’s inquest examining an August 2022 rafting death on the Youghiogheny River in Ohiopyle recommended drastic changes Thursday in hopes of preventing future fatalities. The panel suggested guides be present in every raft on commercial trips and physical modifications be made to Dimple Rock and a second

The three state parks here in Southwestern Pennsylvania range from the wildly popular to just plain wild. Each of the parks in the tri-county area – Ryerson Station in Greene,

As business owners, Pam Kruse, Mark McCarty and Rob Joseph love how the magnetism of Ohiopyle draws dollars to town. There’s the Ohiopyle that everybody sees: a recreation mecca with sought-after whitewater rafting, a bicycling trail built for short trips and dayslong challenges, hiking and mountain biking trails hidden in

During the pandemic, Ohiopyle State Park saw a record number of visitors as folks looked for ways to find some sense of normalcy.

A 51-year-old Ohio woman died Saturday in a rafting accident at Ohiopyle State Park in Fayette County. According to Tribune-Review content partner WPXI-TV, Park Operations Manager Ken Bisbee said the woman fell overboard when her raft overturned in one of the rapids on the Lower Youghiogheny River. He said the

Attendance at Ohiopyle State Park returned to its typical pre-pandemic figures last year after booming during COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020.

More than a dozen state parks and forests across Pennsylvania – including Ohiopyle in Fayette County – have been experiencing “extreme overcrowding” on weekends recently, with more people expected to