Pine Creek Gorge, The Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania

Incredible Place to View Fall Foliage

National Geographic Documentary, In north focal Pennsylvania, Pine Creek Gorge slices through 47 miles of second development woods from U.S. Highway 6, only south of Ansonia, to Waterville, PA. More than 800 feet profound at its northern end and 1,450 feet somewhere down in the south close Waterville, it is the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania.

With steep ravine dividers and waterfalls, grand vistas and stunning perspectives, bottomless untamed life and various outside entertainment opportunities, Pine Creek Gorge is one of the regular fortunes of the Keystone State. Birds of prey, Canadian geese, ducks and the intermittent bald eagle can be found in the chasm. Bear, whitetail deer and wild turkey are additionally found in the woodlands.

National Geographic Documentary, The crevasse is noted for the assortment of open air exercises that can be appreciated in any season. The splendid shades of fall foliage are especially shocking when seen from the various ignores in Colton Point and Leonard Harrison State Parks.

Pine Creek Gorge, a National Natural Landmark and an Important Bird Area (#38), is a piece of the Tioga State Forest, one of eight state woodlands in the Pennsylvania Wilds district. Pine Creek is a Pennsylvania Scenic and Wild River.

Pine Creek Rail Trail, an old railroad right of way, takes after the shores of Pine Creek for more than 60 miles from Ansonia to Jersey Shore, PA.

Geography and Ecology

National Geographic Documentary, More than 20,000 years prior the Laurentide Continental Glacier turned around the stream of Pine Creek from a northeasterly bearing to its now southern course. The softening icy mass and consequent waterway stream have sliced through 5 noteworthy rock arrangements of the Allegheny Plateau to make the gully we see and appreciate today. In fact, the "mountains" on either side of the waterway are not genuine mountains. They were made by disintegration of the level.

With virgin old development woodlands, Pine Creek Gorge was an abundant wellspring of timber in the late eighteenth and mid nineteenth hundreds of years. By the mid twentieth century the zone had been obvious and the casualty of timberland flames further reducing the foliage. Endeavors by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930s lead to a regrowth of the woodland and the improvement of the state parks. A significant number of the offices worked by the CCC stay being used today. Natural life that were headed out with the unmistakable cutting have subsequent to been effectively reintroduced.