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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 ...
The lake is located within Ricketts Glen State Park. It is in the northernmost part of the watershed of Fishing Creek. The main rock formation in the watershed of Lake Jean is the Burgoon Sandstone, which contains interbedded gray shale, conglomerate, and mudstone.
In 1942 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania began buying the glens and their waterfalls from the heirs for $82,000 (approximately $1,469,000 in 2024) and opened Ricketts Glen State Park in 1944; from 1920 to 1950 the state bought more than 65,000 acres (26,000 ha) from the Ricketts family for the park and Pennsylvania State Game Lands.
Kitchen Creek looking downstream in Ricketts Glen State Park, from the Evergreen Trail. The watershed (or drainage basin) of Kitchen Creek has an area of 20.10 square miles (52.1 km 2). The watershed is situated in southeastern Sullivan County and northwestern Luzerne County. There are a number of lakes in the watershed of Kitchen Creek.
FIPS code. 42-079-24752. Fairmount Township is a township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,207 at the 2020 census. [2] Fairmount Township is home to Ricketts Glen State Park. The park receives tens of thousands of visitors each year.
Crooked Creek begins in a pond at the base of North Mountain, just west of the community of Ripple and not far from Ricketts Glen State Park in Fairmount Township. The creek flows southwest for several hundred feet, crossing Pennsylvania Route 118. It then turns west-southwest for more than a mile, its valley gradually deepening.
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