Pennsylvania

R.B. Ricketts Falls

64 mi from Allentown · ~1.9 hr drive

36ft tall
≈ 11 m

R.B. Ricketts Falls is a named waterfall in Pennsylvania — a smaller 36-foot cascade, about 64 miles from Allentown, PA. Full visit details below.

Nearest city
Allentown, PA · 64 mi · ~1.9 hr drive
Height
36 ft (11 m)
From Wikipedia: There are 24 named waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania along Kitchen Creek as it flows in three steep, narrow valleys, or glens. They range in height from 9 feet (2.7 m) to the 94-foot (29 m) Ganoga Falls. Ricketts Glen State Park is named for R. Bruce Ricketts, a colonel in the American Civil War who owned over 80,000 acres in the area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but spared the old-growth forests in the glens from clearcutting. The park, which opened in 1944, is administered by the Bureau of State Parks of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR). Nearly all of the waterfalls are visible from the Falls Trail, which Ricketts had built from 1889 to 1893 and which the state park rebuilt in the 1940s and late 1990s. The Falls Trail has been called "the most magnificent hike in the state" and one of "the top hikes in the East". Excerpt from the Wikipedia article on Waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Visiting R.B. Ricketts Falls

Trip planning

The exact location is at 41.3242°, -76.2744° — open in Google Maps for driving directions from your location.

Before you go: check current conditions with the appropriate land manager — state parks department, U.S. Forest Service ranger district, or National Park Service unit. Trail access, parking, water levels, and seasonal closures all vary. Several waterfalls in our database are seasonal and may run dry between mid-summer and the next rainy season.

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Sources

Public data

Location and tag data for R.B. Ricketts Falls comes from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL license) ; the Wikipedia article linked above provides additional history. We do not modify the underlying data — this page presents what's already publicly recorded. To suggest corrections, see our methodology page or contact us.