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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.
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). [2] The watershed is situated in southeastern Sullivan County and northwestern Luzerne County. [4] There are a number of lakes in the watershed of Kitchen Creek.
UTC-4 (EDT) 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.
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 ...
Promised Land State Park. Promised Land State Park is a Pennsylvania state park in Blooming Grove, Greene and Palmyra Townships, Pike County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The approximately 3,000-acre (1,214 ha) park is mostly surrounded by Delaware State Forest. It is in the Poconos and sits at an elevation of 1,800 feet (549 m).
Jeff Mitchell's book Paddling Pennsylvania: Canoeing and Kayaking the Keystone State's Rivers and Lakes describes Lake Jean as being "known for its beauty" and "one of the finest lakes for paddling in Pennsylvania". [5] The 0.8-mile-long Beach Trail at Ricketts Glen State Park goes along Lake Jean. [19] There are ten modern cabins near the lake ...
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 ...
The center is within Ricketts Glen State Park, [1] which opened in 1944 and is mostly on land once owned by lumber baron Robert Bruce Ricketts, for whom the park is named. [3] 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 ...