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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.
Ricketts Glen State Park is named for R. Bruce Ricketts, a colonel in the American Civil War who owned over 80,000 acres (32,000 hectares) in the area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but spared the old-growth forests in the glens from clearcutting.
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.
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.
The center is within Ricketts Glen State Park, which opened in 1944 and is mostly on land once owned by lumber baron Robert Bruce Ricketts, for whom the park is named. The park is in two physiographic provinces the Allegheny Plateau and the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, with the steep escarpment of the Allegheny Front forming the boundary ...
On October 26, 2015, Luzerne County finalized the transfer of Moon Lake Park to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In 2015, the park was renamed Moon Lake State Forest Recreation Area and is included in the Pinchot State Forest system. Most of the existing structures will be demolished. Nearby attractions Parks. Ricketts Glen State Park
Pennsylvania Route 487 ( PA 487) is a 64.2-mile-long (103.3 km), north–south state highway running from PA 61 in Shamokin Township, Northumberland County, to PA 87 (near its intersection with US 220) in Dushore, Sullivan County. In Bloomsburg, PA 487 and US 11 share a brief wrong-way concurrency.