REMARKS: Referred to as the "Niagara of Pennsylvania.". An upper canyon and lower gorge on Little Bushkill Creek contain the main falls and several smaller ones; the main falls is approximately 100 feet high. Three more falls are on a tributary (Pond Run Creek) that enters Little Bushkill Creek below the lower gorge. The main falls and many of the smaller ones are in the upper member of the Mahantango Formation (Devonian age), a medium-dark-gray-coarse-grained thin-bedded siltstone and silty shale at this location. Bushkill Falls is one of the East's most famous scenic geological attractions. The falls was first opened to the public in 1904 by Charles E. Peters and operated commercially by Harry M. Stevens, Inc., of Pennsylvania, from April 1 to November 1, daily from 8:00 a.m. to dark.
REFERENCE: Alvord, D. C., and Drake, A. A., Jr. [1971], Geologica map of the Bushkill quadrangle, Pennsylvania-New Jersey, U. S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-908.
REMARKS: The Delaware River escarpment; scenic beauty. Shale of the Mahantango Formation (Devonian age) is fairly stable in near-vertical cliffs.
REMARKS: The highest falls in Pennsylvania; water cascades over flat-lying beds of Mahantango shales, siltstones, and sandstones (Devonian age). Silverthread Falls occurs in a narrow rock fracture; highly scenic.
REMARKS: Weathering along intersecting vertical fractures has produced tall columns of rock resembling elephants' feet; the sandstones and siltstones are part of the Trimmmers Rock Formation (Devonian age).
REMARKS: A highly scenic area and one of the Commonwealth's most spectacular waterfalls.
REMARKS: High Knob reaches an elevation of about 2050 feet and marks the most northeastern point at which the Pocono Plateau escarpment is well developed; to the north of this point the plateau loses its distinctiveness. High Knob is upheld by red and green-gray, flaggy-bedded sandstones and conglomerates of the Catskill Formation (Devonian age). From the top of the knob, on a clear day, one can see from the Catskill Mountains of New York State to the Lehigh Water Gap and to the Moosic Mountains; truly, a grand vista. Low Knob (170), at elevation 1996, is nearby.
REFERENCE: White, I. C. [1882], The geology of Pike and Monroe Counties, Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 2nd ser., Report of Progress G6, p. 179.
REMARKS: A very scenic falls cascades over gray and red sandstones, siltstones, and claystones of the Long Run Member of the Catskill Formation (Devonian age) at the escarpment of the Pocono Plateau; other falls nearby, High Falls (172), Spruce Cabin Falls (173), and Leavitt Falls (174), occur in the adjacent Glaciated Low Plateaus section. Round Hole (175), also in the Glaciated Low Plateaus section, is an oxbow lake (a meander of Brights Creek that has been completely cut off, leaving an isolated lake). All of the latter features in the Low Plateaus are in Monroe County.
REFERENCE: Sevon, W. D., and Berg, T. M. [1978], Geology and mineral resources of the Skytop quadrangle, Monroe and Pike Counties, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 4th ser., Atlas 214a, 33 p.
REMARKS: Pinchot Falls on the Sawkill Creek is a spectacular flow of water cascading more than one hundred feet through a narrow gorge cut into the Mahantango Formation (Devonian age). It is between Matamoras and Bushkill. Pinchot Gray Towers, the homesite of Gifford Pinchot (former governor of Pennsylvania) is maintained by the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, and is open to the public from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.
REMARKS: The falls are 175 feet high, spectacular, and second only in height to Dingmans Falls.
REMARKS: Shohola Creek descends 200 feet in half a mile through falls and rapids. The gorge (Shohola Glen), approximately 80 feet deep, is developed on a vertical-walled rock fracture; shales and siltstones of the Catskill Formation (Devonian age) are exposed in the gorge cliffs. The falls just below the dam are the most spectacular. The Pennsylvania Game Commission has named the region the "Shohola Recreation Area."
REFERENCE: Fletcher, F. W., and Woodrow, D. L. [1970], Geology and economic resources of the Pennsylvania portion of the Milford and Port Jervis 15-minute quadrangles, Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 4th ser., Atlas 223, 14 p.
Susquehanna planning Commission [1970], Inventory of natural, scenic, and historic areas, Montrose, Pennsylvania, 64 p.
REMARKS: Saw Creek descends over a series of waterfalls which are highly scenic and which, based on their height and width and the number of falls, represent the finest examples in Pennsylvania.
REFERENCES: Alvord, D. C., and Drake, A. A., Jr. (1971), Geologic map of the Bushkill quadrangle, Pennsylvania-New Jersey, U. S. Geolgical Survey.