Historic house · Milford Township, Pike County
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.
What you will find
- Historic features
- Garden
Make a day of it
Nearby
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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.
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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.
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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 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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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.
