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"The Gap" as seen from the Delaware River Viaduct. The namesake feature of the recreation area is the prominent Delaware Water Gap, located at the area's southern end.The Delaware River runs through the gap, separating Pennsylvania's Mount Minsi on Blue Mountain, elevation 1,461 feet (445 m), from New Jersey's Mount Tammany on Kittatinny Mountain, elevation 1,527 feet (465 m).
The Delaware Water Gap is a water gap on the border of the U.S. states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania where the Delaware River cuts through a large ridge of the Appalachian Mountains. [ 2 ] The gap makes up the southern portion of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area , which is used primarily for recreational purposes, such as ...
English: Official Delaware Water Gap map, showing points of interest in the entire park in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Date: 29 February 2016: Source:
The Delaware Water Gap has announced its priority for which roads and facilities in the national park will be open and closed for the winter.
The number of visitors to the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area dropped last year, but the park remained among the top 20 most visited in the National Park Service network.
The Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area came about as a result of the failure of a controversial plan to build a dam on the Delaware River at Tocks Island, just north of the Delaware Water Gap to control water levels for flood control and hydroelectric power generation. The dam would have created a 37-mile (60 km) lake in the center of ...
There are eight waterfalls and more than 2 miles (3.2 km) of trail on these 300 acres (120 ha), located in Pennsylvania near the top of Delaware Water Gap National Recreational park. The drop of the main fall of Bushkill Falls is about 100 feet (30 m). [11]
This photo shows an adult bald eagle on a new nest on a Delaware River island within the boundaries of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Posted by photographer James Kaval, the ...