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Ricketts Glen State Park near Benton, Pennsylvania is a 13,050-acre (5.4 km²) park in Luzerne, Sullivan and Columbia counties in northeastern Pennsylvania. The park offers hiking, camping (one of the two camping areas is on a peninsula extending into the lake), riding (horses not provided in the park), hunting, swimming, fishing, canoeing and kayaking on 245-acre (98 ha) Lake Jean, as well as cross-country skiing and ice fishing in the Winter. The park also contains the Glens Natural Area, a National Natural Landmark; the Falls Trail passes 24 named waterfalls, the highest being 94-foot (28.6 m) Ganoga Falls. Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1587x1248, 712 KB) Summary Bald Eagle at Lake Jean, Ricketts Glen State Park. ...
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Benton is a borough located in Columbia County, Pennsylvania. ...
Location in the state of Pennsylvania Formed Seat Wilkes-Barre Area - Total - Water 2,349 km² (907 mi²) 42 km² (16 mi²) 1. ...
Sullivan County is a county located in the state of Pennsylvania. ...
Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Keystone State Other U.S. States Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Governor Ed Rendell (D) Senators Arlen Specter (R) Rick Santorum (R) Official languages None Area 119,283 km² (33rd) - Land 116,074 km² - Water 3,208 km² (2. ...
Beautiful natural scenes are common hiking destinations Hiking is a form of walking, undertaken with the specific purpose of exploring and enjoying the scenery. ...
Camping is an outdoor recreational activity involving the spending of one or more nights in a tent, primitive structure, a travel trailer or recreational vehicle at a campsite with the purpose of getting away from civilization and enjoying nature. ...
This page refers to a Riding as a unit in local government. ...
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Skiing by free technique/skating Cross-country skiing (aka XC skiing) is an adventure and fitness activity as well as a competitive winter sport popular in many countries with large snowfields, primarily in Europe and Canada. ...
Ice fishing on the Ottawa river, near the capital of Canada Ice fishing is the sport of catching fish with lines and hooks through an opening in the ice on a frozen body of water. ...
Caverns of Sonora National Natural Landmark The National Natural Landmark (NNL) program recognizes and encourages the conservation of outstanding examples of the United States natural history. ...
Tower Fall in Yellowstone National Park A waterfall is usually a geological formation resulting from water, often in the form of a stream, flowing over an erosion-resistant rock formation that forms a sudden break in elevation. ...
History Robert Bruce Ricketts was a veteran of the Civil War. Colonel Ricketts at one time owned outright or controlled over 80,000 acres of land in this area. His heirs, through the Central Penn Lumber Company, sold 48,000 acres to the Pennsylvania Game Commission from 1920-24. This left them with over 12,000 acres surrounding the Ganoga Lake, Lake Jean and Glens area. Jump to: navigation, search A civil war is a war in which the competing parties are segments of the same country or empire. ...
In fact, Ricketts and the other settlers living in the area weren't even aware of the glens and their many waterfalls until the 1890's! At that time, a houseguest of the Ricketts went fishing and wandered down Kitchen Creek, discovering the many waterfalls (and the reason why no fish came up the stream!).
Although the area was approved as a national park site in the 1930s, World War II brought an end to this plan for development and in 1942 the heirs sold 1,261 acres, the Falls and Glens area, to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for a state park. Additional purchases everntually brought the park to its present size. Recreational facilities first opened in 1944. Yosemite National Park in the United States. ...
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State nickname: The Keystone State Other U.S. States Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Governor Ed Rendell Official languages None Area 119,283 km² (33rd) - Land 116,074 km² - Water 3,208 km² (2. ...
The Glens Natural Area
 Waterfall in the Glens Natural Area The Glens Natural Area, a registered National Natural Landmark since October 12, 1969, is the main scenic attraction in the park. Among giant pines, hemlocks, and oaks, two branches of Kitchen Creek cut through the deep gorges of Ganoga Glen and Glen Leigh and unite at "Waters Meet", then flow through Ricketts Glen. Many of the magnificent trees in this area are over 500 years old, and ring counts on fallen trees have revealed ages as high as 900 years. Diameters of almost four feet are common, and many trees tower to 100 feet in height. The area is the meeting ground of the southern and northern hardwood types, creating an extensive variety of trees. In 1993, the Glens Natural Area became a State Park Natural Area and will be protected and maintained in a natural state. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 1287 KB)Ricketts Glen State Park Taken by User:Mwanner on June 20, 2005 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 1287 KB)Ricketts Glen State Park Taken by User:Mwanner on June 20, 2005 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Caverns of Sonora National Natural Landmark The National Natural Landmark (NNL) program recognizes and encourages the conservation of outstanding examples of the United States natural history. ...
A series of trails, covering a total of five miles, parallels the streams as they course down the Glens. Glen Leigh features eight waterfalls. Ganoga Glen has ten named falls including 94-foot Ganoga Fall, plus another good-sized unnamed one on a side tributary. Ricketts Glen has three waterfalls just below Waters Meet, and two more two miles farther downstream at PA route 118. (One of these two is directly below the highway bridge, which obscures much of the view. The farthest downstream, Adams Fall, an especially pretty waterfall, is 1/10 mile south of the highway along a short trail from the parking lot just west of Kitchen Creek.)
The Glen hikes described here also include the one-mile Highland Trail, which connects the top ends of Glens Ganoga and Leigh to form a triangle; this trail features the "Midway Crevasse," a formation of large rocks. A map is available at the park office near the lake.
Hiking the entire Glens area beginning and ending at PA 118 yields a seven-mile hike that includes the Highland Trail.
For a shorter hike, one may park at Lake Rose, near the junction of Ganoga Glen and the Highland Trail. It is possible to see all of the waterfalls except the two near the highway by hiking around the triangular area (Highland Trail / Glen Leigh / Ganoga Glen). The distance around the triangle is three miles. An optional side trip from Waters Meet along the three falls in the top of Ricketts Glen, then back to Waters Meet from the third, adds half a mile.
Visiting Adams Fall, 1/10 mile south of 118 (next to the parking lot west of the creek, across the road from the trail through the glens) is one of the most scenic falls in the park.
There is a longer but more gradual side trail that leads from the top of Ganoga Glen on a winding path through the woods to a point near this fall. Adams Fall and the fall under the highway bridge are accessible via an easy 1/10-mile walk from the PA 118 parking lot.
There are other hiking trails along the lake and nearby in the forest, and several more trails pass through more isolated areas of the park.
Like all Pennsylvania state parks, Ricketts Glen charges no admission fee. This is a list of state parks in Pennsylvania. ...
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