Pike County 11
11 places to explore in Pike County, Pennsylvania — part of the Pocono Mountains region.
Public Gardens 1
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Grey Towers National Historic Site
The château-style summer home of Gifford Pinchot, first chief of the U.S. Forest Service and two-term governor, with terraced gardens and views over the Delaware Valley.
Museums 1
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Zane Grey Museum
The Delaware River home where the western novelist began his writing career, now a National Park Service museum near Roebling's historic aqueduct.
Historic Sites 2
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Grey Towers National Historic Site
The château-style summer home of Gifford Pinchot, first chief of the U.S. Forest Service and two-term governor, with terraced gardens and views over the Delaware Valley.
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Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct
The oldest existing wire-cable suspension bridge in the country, built by John A. Roebling in the 1840s to carry a canal over the Delaware and now open to cars.
Small Towns 1
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Milford
The Pike County seat on the Delaware, with leafy Victorian streets, Gifford Pinchot's Grey Towers estate, and the waterfalls and trails of the Delaware Water Gap recreation area nearby.
Public Parks 7
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Promised Land State Park
Two lakes on the Pocono Plateau, ringed by Civilian Conservation Corps cabins, beaches and campgrounds, with trails into the Bruce Lake Natural Area and the surrounding state forest.
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Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
Forty miles of the free-flowing Delaware River between forested ridges, with canoe and tubing runs, river beaches, waterfalls such as Dingmans and Raymondskill, and the Appalachian Trail at the gap itself.
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Bushkill Falls
A privately run chain of eight waterfalls in a hemlock-shaded gorge, linked by bridges and boardwalk trails, with the 100-foot main falls at the center; it bills itself as the Niagara of Pennsylvania.
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Dingmans Falls
A boardwalk through a hemlock ravine passes the slender ribbon of Silverthread Falls before reaching a 130-foot cascade that ranks among Pennsylvania's tallest waterfalls.
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George W. Childs Recreation Site
A loop trail follows Dingmans Creek through a hemlock gorge past three waterfalls, Factory, Fulmer and Deer Leap, with the stone ruins of an old woolen mill and shady picnic spots.
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Delaware State Forest
Pocono Plateau woods dotted with glacial lakes, bogs and natural areas such as Bruce Lake, with long trails, primitive camping and plenty of room for solitude.
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Raymondskill Falls
By the National Park Service's measure, this is Pennsylvania's tallest waterfall, dropping in several tiers into a hemlock ravine a short, steep walk from the parking area.
Hiking Trails 5
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Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
Forty miles of the free-flowing Delaware River between forested ridges, with canoe and tubing runs, river beaches, waterfalls such as Dingmans and Raymondskill, and the Appalachian Trail at the gap itself.
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Bushkill Falls
A privately run chain of eight waterfalls in a hemlock-shaded gorge, linked by bridges and boardwalk trails, with the 100-foot main falls at the center; it bills itself as the Niagara of Pennsylvania.
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Dingmans Falls
A boardwalk through a hemlock ravine passes the slender ribbon of Silverthread Falls before reaching a 130-foot cascade that ranks among Pennsylvania's tallest waterfalls.
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George W. Childs Recreation Site
A loop trail follows Dingmans Creek through a hemlock gorge past three waterfalls, Factory, Fulmer and Deer Leap, with the stone ruins of an old woolen mill and shady picnic spots.
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Raymondskill Falls
By the National Park Service's measure, this is Pennsylvania's tallest waterfall, dropping in several tiers into a hemlock ravine a short, steep walk from the parking area.