Hilltop Butchering, LLC
★ 4.5 on Google (40 reviews) · 3796 Jacksonville Rd., Bellefonte, PA 16823
✓Hunters Sharing the Harvest–PGC CWD cooperating processor–After-hours drop-off✓Website or Facebook
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Best Deer Processors in Bellefonte, PA
The 4 best-rated deer processors in and around Bellefonte, Centre County: 1 in Bellefonte itself and the rest within about 20 miles. Shops in town come first, then each group is ranked by Google rating weighted by review count, state program participation and distance.
How we rank: a Google rating with fewer reviews counts for less than one with many; shops on the 2026 state program lists, HSH partners and CWD cooperators get a small boost; farther shops get a small penalty per mile. Shops in town are listed ahead of nearby ones. Nobody pays for placement. Details
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Stoltzfus Butcher Shop
★ 4.9 on Google (182 reviews) · 1865 East End Mt. Road, Mill Hall, PA 17751
✓Hunters Sharing the Harvest–PGC CWD cooperating processor✓After-hours drop-off✓Website or Facebook
Boneless cutsCustom cuts / cut & wrapGround venison / burgerJerkyBologna / Lebanon bologna
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Mark's Custom Meats
★ 4.9 on Google (40 reviews) · 4101 Nittany Valley Dr, Howard, PA 16841
–Hunters Sharing the Harvest–PGC CWD cooperating processor–After-hours drop-off✓Website or Facebook
Boneless cutsCustom cuts / cut & wrapGround venison / burgerVacuum sealingSnack sticks
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Rising Spring Meat Company
★ 4.0 on Google (17 reviews) · 119 Cooper St, Spring Mills, PA 16875
–Hunters Sharing the Harvest–PGC CWD cooperating processor–After-hours drop-off✓Website or Facebook
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Getting a deer processed near Bellefonte
Bellefonte has 1 listed deer processor of its own, and this page adds 3 nearby options within roughly 20 miles. The nearby shops are in Howard (5 mi), Spring Mills (10 mi) and Mill Hall (15 mi). The top-ranked shop is Hilltop Butchering, LLC, rated 4.5 across 40 reviews. Stoltzfus Butcher Shop has the most reviews (182, averaging 4.9).
To donate venison through Hunters Sharing the Harvest, use Hilltop Butchering, LLC and Stoltzfus Butcher Shop. None of these shops is on the PGC cooperating processor list. Under the 2026-27 CWD rules you don't need one, since any shop can take your deer as long as high-risk parts go out with the trash. After-hours drop-off is available at Stoltzfus Butcher Shop.
The services listed most often here are bologna (2 shops), jerky (2 shops), fresh sausage (2 shops) and smoked products (2 shops). Bear and elk aren't mentioned in these listings; call ahead to confirm a shop will take one. Pricing isn't posted for these shops. Ask for the base rate, then skinning, caping and specialty product charges.
Bellefonte is in Centre County, in the PGC Northcentral Region. Region at a glance: The Pennsylvania Wilds: big woods, State Game Lands and the elk range around Elk, Cameron and Clearfield counties. Other Centre County towns with listed processors: Howard, Port Matilda, Spring Mills and Warriors Mark. Rifle season fills coolers fast on opening weekend, so call before you head out.
Drop-off checklist
- Tag it right away. Tag the deer immediately after harvest and before you move it. The tag goes on the ear and stays there until the deer is processed.
- Field dress and cool fast. Remove entrails, drain the cavity and get the deer cold. In warm weather, pack the cavity with bagged ice.
- High-risk parts go in the trash. New for 2026-27: you can move a deer anywhere, but once it leaves the kill site the head, backbone and spleen must go out with commercial trash. A processor handles that for you.
- Report within 10 days. Online, by phone at 1-800-838-4431, or with the digest report card.
Donate venison
Hunters Sharing the Harvest
Drop a legally harvested deer at a participating processor and the venison goes to Pennsylvania food banks. Program sponsors usually cover the processing; confirm with the shop.
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