Ricketts Glen State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on 13,050 acres (5,280 ha) in Columbia, Luzerne, and Sullivan counties in Pennsylvania in the United States. Ricketts Glen is a National Natural Landmark known for its old-growth forest and 24 named waterfalls along Kitchen Creek, which flows down the Allegheny Front escarpment from the Allegheny Plateau to the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians. The park is near the borough of Benton on Pennsylvania Route 118 and Pennsylvania Route 487, and is in five townships: Sugarloaf in Columbia County, Fairmount and Ross in Luzerne County, and Colley and Davidson in Sullivan County.

Today I decided to go to a park we haven’t seen in a while.   Ricketts Glen does have 24 waterfalls.  I’m going to photograph them.  But not today.   It was 32 degrees and mostly cloudy with a few patches of sun breaking out.   This kind of weather would tend to send most photographers home.  However I try to do my own thing.  Just below all of the falls in the south edge of the park is a small set of waterfalls that in the spring and early summer are just amazing to view.  However they were 90% frozen over and the clouds were heavy so we decided to wander up to the plateau. There we found a couple people attempting to Para Ski. They never actually got off the ground. Well.. I saw one of them get picked up by ther wind while he wasnt ready and get thrown about 20 feet through the air and tossed back on the ground. Id guess they are going home sore by now…

 

 

 

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