Pine Creek Gorge | |
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Map of Pennsylvania | |
Location | Tioga, Lycoming, and Clinton counties, Pennsylvania |
Nearest city | Waterville |
Coordinates | 41°16′18″N 77°19′37″W / 41.27167°N 77.32694°W |
Designated | 1968 |
Pine Creek Gorge, sometimes called The Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania,[1] is a 47-mile (76 km) gorge carved into the Allegheny Plateau by Pine Creek in north-central Pennsylvania.
It sits in about 160,000 acres (650 km2) of the Tioga State Forest. The gorge begins south of Ansonia, near Wellsboro, along U.S. Route 6 and continues south. Its deepest point is 1,450 feet (440 m) at Waterville, near the southern end. At Leonard Harrison and Colton Point State Parks, it is more than 800 feet (240 m) deep and the distance rim-to-rim is about 4,000 feet (1,200 m).