Ricketts Glen State Park
23 Trails
81 POIs
1 Peak
2 Campsites
1 Viewpoint
Description
Ricketts Glen State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on 13,050 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. 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 State Park has 10 modern cabins that are available to rent on a year-round basis. All cabins are furnished with electric heat, two or three bedrooms, living room, kitchen, and bath. Cabin renters must bring their own household items such as linens and cookware. One cabin is ADA accessible. There are 120 campsites at Ricketts Glen State Park. Each campsite has access to washhouses with flush toilets, showers, and laundry tubs. The campsites also have fire rings and picnic tables. There are two camping areas on the shores of Lake Jean, with one of the campgrounds on a peninsula. There is also an organized group tenting area, which can accommodate six groups of up to 40 persons. The 600-foot (180 m) beach on Lake Jean is open from mid-May through mid-September. A concession stand and modern restrooms are at the beach. Lifeguards have not been provided since 2008, visitors swim at their own risk. Picnic areas are at Lake Jean and the PA 118 access area at the Falls Loop Trail trailhead. Charcoal grills are provided for use at the picnic areas.
Trails in the Hikepack map
- Beach Trail
- Bear Walk Trail
- Cherry Run Trail
- Evergreen Trail
- Falls Trail
- Grand View Trail
- Highland Trail
- Lake Rose Trail
- Little Cherry Run Trail
- Mountain Springs Trail
- Old Beaver Dam Rd. Trail
- Old Bulldozer Rd Trail
- To Rt 118
Attractions in the Hikepack map
- 028
- B. Reynolds Falls
- Beach Parking #1
- Beach Parking #2
- Cayuga Falls
- Conestoga Falls
- Delaware Falls
- Erie Falls
- Evergreen Parking
- F.L. Ricketts Falls
- Ganoga Falls
- Gate
- Grand View
- Harrison Wright Falls
- Huron Falls
- Lake Rose Parking Area
- Mohawk Falls
- Mohican Falls
- Murray Reynolds Falls
- Oneida Falls
- Onondaga Falls
- Ozone Falls
- Park Office
- R.B. Ricketts Falls
- Ricketts Glen Big Loop
- Ricketts Glen Small Loop
- Seneca Falls
- Shawnee Falls
- Sheldon Reynolds Falls
- Tuscarora Falls
- Wyandot Falls
Copyright
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Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Aerial imagery available from the U.S. Geological Survey. Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©User:Ruhrfisch https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ricketts_Glen_State_Park_F.L._Ricketts_Falls_3.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
