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The Lehigh Valley and Southeastern PA Pennsylvania Home |
To be published spring 2004 The Countryman Press |
| Carbon and
Schuylkill Counties are characterized by long, ridge-like mountaintops
and the deeply incised valleys of the Lehigh River and its
tributaries. Streams coming off these hills are generally lower
in volume than those found in the Poconos to the norhy, and as a
consequence the falls are not quite as impressive. This area was
historically a center of coal mining and related industries, and
remnants of these activities abound. To the south, the Piedmont section of Pennsylvania is characterized by broad rolling hills sloping gently down from northwest to southeast. Much of the landscape is farmland, punctuated by pockets of forest and urban areas. Many streams rush in cascades and rapids to the great Susquehanna and Delaware rivers here, but there are only a few real waterfalls. |
 Hawk Falls Hickory Run State Park Carbon County |
 Leslie Run Lehigh Gorge State Park Carbon County |
 Buttermilk Falls Lehigh Gorge State Park Carbon County |
 Onoko Falls |
Glen Onoko State Game Lands Carbon County |
 Cave Falls |
 Swatara Falls Schuylkill County |
 Ringing Rocks Falls Bucks County |
Waterfalls
of Maryland |
Waterfalls
of New Jersey |
 Waterfalls of the Mid-Atlantic States |
Photos and text ©2003 Gary R. Letcher (except as noted) (High-res images available) Special thanks to
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 Canoeing the Delaware River by Gary Letcher |
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the author/photographer or the Webmaster |
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