Penn Lake Park is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States.
[3] The community was founded in 1938, after ice salesman Albert Lewis used the lake to chip out his product.
In 1946, Harry and Mary Goeringer bought the lake — and the 800 acres around it — from Lewis.
[6] Penn Lake Park is located 10 miles (16 km) south of Wilkes-Barre.
About 5.7% of families and 4.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including none of those under the age of eighteen and 20.8% of those sixty five or over.