Town · Milford, Pike County
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.
Milford, the seat of Pike County, sits above the Delaware River with wide, tree-shaded streets, Victorian houses and a small, walkable downtown of galleries, cafes and antique shops. It has deep roots in American conservation. Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania, spent much of his life at Grey Towers, his family's stone mansion on the hill above town, which the Forest Service now opens for tours.
Milford is also the northern gateway to the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Raymondskill Falls, the tallest waterfall in Pennsylvania, is a few miles south, Dingmans Falls a little farther, and in summer the river itself is made for canoes and tubes.
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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.
Photo: Jason Quinn, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Waterfall · Dingman Township, Pike County
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.
Photo: G. Edward Johnson, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Waterfall · Delaware Township, Pike County
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.
National recreation area · Lehman Township, Pike County
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.
Photo: Mike Serfas, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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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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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.