Crews Rescue Previously Missing 76-Year Old Woman In Ohiopyle State Park

By: KDKA-TV News Staff

OHIOPYLE (KDKA) -- Search and rescue crews have found a woman who was missing in Ohiopyle State Park.

Fayette County dispatchers tell KDKA that the 76-year old woman was found safe just before 9 a.m. near Cucumber Falls. She was found on the shoreline of the Yough by a search crew in a boat.

Chief Park Ranger John Kaminsky says the woman got fatigued on a hike with her daughter in the Fern Cliff area and turned back alone. She told rescuers she slipped down a steep embankment and couldn't get back up.

Crews searched through the night and found her around 8:30 a.m. Monday morning.

She declined an ambulance ride to the hospital and left the park with her daughter.