Ricketts Glen State Park

Local nameRicketts Glen State Park
LocationUnited States

Ricketts Glen State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on 13,050 acres 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. The park is near the borough of Benton on Pennsylvania Route 118 and Pennsylvania Route 487, and is in five townships: Sugarloaf in Columbia County, Fairmount and Ross in Luzerne County, and Colley and Davidson in Sullivan County.

Ricketts Glen's land was once home to Native Americans. From 1822 to 1827, a turnpike was built along the course of PA 487 in what is now the park, where two squatters harvested cherry trees to make bed frames from about 1830 to 1860.

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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricketts_Glen_State_Park

Official Website http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/findapark/rickettsglen/

Coordinates 41°20'11.428" N -76°16'12.401" E

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