 By 2001 yearly attendance at Black Moshannon State Park was over 350,000.As of 2020, the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) Bureau of Parks, which administers all 121 Pennsylvania state parks, had chosen Black Moshannon as one of its "25 Must-see Pennsylvania State Parks", citing it as home to the "largest reconstituted bog in Pennsylvania".The rocks underlying the Black Moshannon Creek drainage basin are primarily shale, sandstone, and coal.