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Bushkill Falls. There are eight waterfalls and more than 2 miles (3.2 km) of trail on these 300 acres (120 ha), located in Pennsylvania near the top of Delaware Water Gap National Recreational park. The drop of the main fall of Bushkill Falls is about 100 feet (30 m). [11] While the drop from the first falls to the bottom of the lower gorge is ...
"The Gap" as seen from the Delaware River Viaduct. The namesake feature of the recreation area is the prominent Delaware Water Gap, located at the area's southern end.The Delaware River runs through the gap, separating Pennsylvania's Mount Minsi on Blue Mountain, elevation 1,461 feet (445 m), from New Jersey's Mount Tammany on Kittatinny Mountain, elevation 1,527 feet (465 m).
The Delaware Water Gap with the Pennsylvania town of the same name visible in the lower left next to the I-80 crossing. A water gap is a geological feature where a river cuts through a mountain ridge. The Delaware Water Gap formed 500 million years ago [4] when quartz pebbles from mountains in the area were deposited in a shallow sea.
Alapocas Falls. Alapocas Run State Park is a state park, located in Wilmington, Delaware, United States, along the Brandywine Creek and its Alapocas Run tributary. Open year-round, it is 415 acres (168 ha) [1] in area. Much of the state park was created from land originally preserved by William Poole Bancroft in the early 1900s to be used as ...
Brandywine Creek State Park is a state park, located 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Wilmington, Delaware along the Brandywine Creek. Open year-round, it is 933 acres (378 ha) in area and much of the park was part of a Du Pont family estate and dairy farm before becoming a state park in 1965. It contains the first two nature preserves in Delaware.
Cape Henlopen State Park is a Delaware state park on 5,193 acres (2,102 ha) on Cape Henlopen in Sussex County, Delaware, in the United States. William Penn made the beaches of Cape Henlopen one of the first public lands established in what has become the United States in 1682 with the declaration that Cape Henlopen would be for "the usage of the citizens of Lewes and Sussex County."
Much of the park’s maintenance backlog is related to the 76 miles of paved roads, parking lots, roadways and bridges. In 2023, the park hosted 4.2 million visits, making it the 17th most-visited ...
Dingmans Falls. Dingmans Falls is a waterfall located in Dingmans Ferry in Delaware Township, Pennsylvania near the Silverthread Falls. It has a vertical drop of 39.6 m (130 ft). Both Silverthread Falls and Dingmans Falls are visible from a handicap-accessible trail. The trail begins at the parking lot for the Dingmans Falls Visitor Center.