Pine Creek Gorge, sometimes called The Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania, is a 47-mile gorge carved into the Allegheny Plateau by Pine Creek in north-central Pennsylvania.
Pine Creek Gorge in autumn.
Pine Creek Gorge in Brown Township in the Tiadaghton State Forest
Pine Creek lumber drive, with arks for kitchen and dining (left), sleeping (center), and horses (right): the railroad is on the shore behind.
A Shay locomotive from the Leetonia lumber railroad and the nearly clearcut Pine Creek Gorge, at one of the lookouts in what is now the park.
The Pine Creek Rail Trail is the only rail trail in the Appalachian Mountains of north-central Pennsylvania.
Pine Creek Gorge
…than 800 feet (240 m) deep and the distance rim-to-rim is about 4,000 feet (1,200 m). Recreational resources include the West Rim Trail for hikers and Pine Creek Rail Trail for bikers. Pine Creek had flowed northeasterly until about 20,000 years ago, when the receding Laurentide Continental Glacier dammed it with rocks…
Rail trail passing through Blackwell
The rail trail uses a former New York Central Railroad bridge to cross over Little Pine Creek in Waterville
Pine Creek Rail Trail near Blackwell (2005)
Pine Creek and the rail trail north of Waterville in Cummings Township in Lycoming County