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Ricketts Glen State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on 13,193 acres (5,280 ha) in Columbia, Luzerne, and Sullivan counties in Pennsylvania in the United States. Ricketts Glen is a National Natural Landmark known for its old-growth forest and 24 named waterfalls along Kitchen Creek, which flows down the Allegheny Front escarpment from the Allegheny Plateau to the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians.
There are 24 named waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania along Kitchen Creek as it flows in three steep, narrow valleys, or glens. They range in height from 9 feet (2.7 m) to the 94-foot (29 m) Ganoga Falls. Ricketts Glen State Park is named for R. Bruce Ricketts, a colonel in the American Civil War who owned ...
Covering more than 13,000 acres in three northeastern Pennsylvania counties, Ricketts Glen State Park shows off old-growth forests, gushing waterfalls, rocky cliffs, and a picture-perfect lake ...
In Pennsylvania, Ricketts Glen State Park Trails; Pine Creek Gorge Rail Trail (Pine Creek Rail Trail); and Presque Isle State Park Trails are all included in the top 150. New Year's Day is a time ...
Original caption was "Rickett's Glen - Ice Waterfall" Winter video of Ganoga Falls (94 feet (28.7 m) tall) on Kitchen Creek in Ricketts Glen State Park, Fairmount Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA. Video was taken from the Falls Trail about halfway up to the top Ganoga Falls, which is the seventh of ten named waterfalls in Ganoga Glen ...
June 9, 1983. The Clemuel Ricketts Mansion (also known as the Stone House, the William R. Ricketts House, and Ganoga) is a Georgian-style house made of sandstone, built in 1852 or 1855 on the shore of Ganoga Lake in Colley Township, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It was home to several generations of the Ricketts family ...
"This is also the order that the falls would be encountered in for each glen while hiking north along the creek on the Falls Trail." - Suggestion: "This is also the order in which a hiker would encounter the falls while traveling north along the creek on the Falls Trail." and changed. Dincher 17:22, 16 January 2010 (UTC) Glen Leigh
Ricketts Glen is easy as there are only 6 falls (4 according to the park map). Glen Leigh is a little trickier as there is a decent sized waterfall (series of 3 or 4 cascades maybe 3 to 5 feet tall) without a name between RB Ricketts and B Reynolds, but almost every photo set agrees on the eight there, plus half have park signs.
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