Pine Creek Gorge

Pine Creek Gorge-in a part of the country far from any shopping mall or four-lane freeway-is a 64-kilometer passage through the northeastern wilderness that drops nearly 442 meters at its deepest point. It’s known as Pennsylvania’s Grand Canyon, and though it may not be nearly as large as Arizona’s it is certainly grand.

The entire area surrounding the gorge is sparsely populated and largely undeveloped, with nearly 400,000 hectares of park and forest land. The gorge itself began forming 350 million years ago, and the layers of rock put on their own color show, as the sandstone, siltstone, mudstone and shale take on hues of green, gray, brown and red.

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