It is part of the Back Mountain, a 118-square mile region in northern Luzerne County.

[2] The first white man who lived in modern-day Lake Township was Matthew Scouten (in the 1790s).

Every mill belonging to Hollenback & Urquhart was later transferred over to the Hoffman Lumber Company.

At the time, due to the abundance of trees, the lumber industry was one of the major employers in the region.

[3] The Harveys Lake and Towanda Branch of the Lehigh Valley Railroad was built during the late 1800s.

Warden Place and Sandy Beach became popular recreational areas near the lake in the early 1900s.

Within this same time period, there were three hotels, two hundred cottages, sixty boathouses, and four steamboats on Harveys Lake.

The eastern and southern sections of the township are made up of hills, forests, and farms.

21.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.5% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older.

The races were coupled with the Giants Despair Hillclimb[10] less than 20 miles away at Laurel Run.