Delaware Water Gap - Between PA and NJ
N 40° 58.110 W 075° 07.206
18T E 489895 N 4535267
The Appalachians are Bisected by the famous Delaware Water Gap, 900 feet wide at the base and 4,500 feet wide at the top, with sides rising to a height of 1,200 feet or more.
Waymark Code: WMA6CA
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 11/23/2010
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This waymark is part of Tour 5.
Right from Columbia on an oiled road that parallels the river and crosses and recrosses a branch of the Erie R.R. to the DELAWARE WATER GAP, 3.2 m. Here the river cuts through the rocky, forested ridge of the Kittatinny Mts., affording a pass for a railroad and a highway on both shores. Geologists explain that the channel through the 1,635-foot mountain was carved many thousands of years ago during a period of crustal changes, when the rock mass of the mountain was being forced upward from a plain. As the mountain grew, the river kept pace by sawing a deeper channel. The commercial value of this scenic point has been exploited on the Pennsylvania shore where hotels were built many years ago ; some of them have since burned. The New Jersey shore, more precipitous, and less accessible because of a narrow and rather rough road, has numerous summer cottages and camps in the woods.
The New Jersey side is now dominated by Interstate 80 and the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area while the Pennsylvania side has the arts hamlet of Delaware Water Gap. This is one of our favorite hiking destinations, with challenging climbs of Mt. Tammany and Mt. Minsi.
Book: New Jersey
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 458
Year Originally Published: 1939
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