Jackson Township Columbia, PA House for Sale

Jackson Township in Columbia County is a rural community south of Pennsylvania’s largest game lands. Locals often spend their days hunting, fishing and hiking through the 49,500-acre plot within Huckleberry Mountain. The township is also near Ricketts Glen State Park, where waterfalls cascade into a recreation lake. This natural setting is why the community’s nearly 600 residents have stuck around. “A lot of these houses are hunting cabins that have been in families for decades,” says Laurie Edson, the township’s secretary. Jackson also offers a remote location, about 5 miles west of Benton’s restaurants and 20 miles north of Bloomsburg’s big-box grocery stores. “You could probably go days without coming across a neighbor,” Edson says. “There’s really just farmland and forestland here.” Farmhouses, ranch styles and Cape Cod cottages are all common here. Some homes sit behind dense forests of hemlock, maple and oak trees. Others are on rolling farmland, with barns, cattle and grain crops. The median single-family home price here is around $390,000, though only three homes have been sold within the past five years. There have been five empty lot sales, with prices ranging from