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- El Ricketts Glen State Park es un parque provincial ubicado en Pensilvania, Estados Unidos, específicamente en los condados de Columbia, Luzerne y Sullivan. Está incluido en el programa federal orientado a la conservación del patrimonio natural estadounidense, y es especialmente notable por su bosque maduro y sus veinticuatro cascadas a lo largo del , que fluyen hacia la escarpa de Allegheny Front, desde la meseta de Allegheny a los Apalaches de Ridge and Valley. El área cubierta por el parque fue hogar de los nativos americanos. Entre 1822 y 1827 se construyó una carretera de peaje a lo largo del curso del PA 487, en donde dos inmigrantes cosechaban árboles de cerezo para fabricar estructuras para camas entre 1830 y 1860. De 1873 a 1903 las cascadas del parque eran una de las principales atracciones de un hotel construido en la zona. El nombre del parque provino del propietario del hotel, R. Bruce Ricketts, responsable de edificar una pista a lo largo de las cascadas. En los años 1890 Ricketts era propietario de más de 320 km², e hizo una fortuna al talar casi toda la tierra arable incluyendo gran parte de lo que hoy es el parque. No obstante, optó por conservar aproximadamente 810 ha de bosque virgen en tres cañadas de la ensenada. Tras su muerte en 1918, los herederos de Ricketts empezaron a vender las tierras restantes al estado de Pensilvania. (es)
- Le parc d’État de Ricketts Glen (anglais : Ricketts Glen State Park) est un parc d'État de 5 280 hectares situé dans les comtés de Columbia, Luzerne et Sullivan en Pennsylvanie, aux États-Unis. National Natural Landmark, il est connu pour ses forêts primaires et ses chutes d'eau. (fr)
- Ricketts Glen State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on 13,193 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. Ricketts Glen's land was once home to Native Americans. From 1822 to 1827, a turnpike was built along the course of PA 487 in what is now the park, where two squatters harvested cherry trees to make bed frames from about 1830 to 1860. The park's waterfalls were one of the main attractions for a hotel from 1873 to 1903; the park is named for the hotel's proprietor, R. Bruce Ricketts, who built the trail along the waterfalls. By the 1890s Ricketts owned or controlled over 80,000 acres (320 km2; 120 sq mi) and made his fortune clearcutting almost all of that land, including much of what is now the park; however he preserved about 2,000 acres (810 ha) of virgin forest in the creek's three glens. The sawmill was at the village of Ricketts, which was mostly north of the park. After his death in 1918, Ricketts' heirs began selling land to the state for Pennsylvania State Game Lands. Plans to make Ricketts Glen a national park in the 1930s were ended by budget issues and the Second World War; Pennsylvania began purchasing the land in 1942 and fully opened Ricketts Glen State Park in 1944. The Benton Air Force Station, a Cold War radar installation in the park, operated from 1951 to 1975 and still serves as airport radar for nearby Wilkes-Barre and as the Red Rock Job Corps Center. Improvements since the creation of the state park include a new dam for the 245-acre (99 ha) Lake Jean, the breaching of two other dams Ricketts built, trail modifications, and a fire tower. In 1999 Hurricane Floyd briefly closed the park and downed thousands of trees; helicopter logging protected the ecosystem while harvesting lumber worth nearly $7 million, some of which paid for a new park office in 2001. The park offers hiking, ten cabins, camping (one of the two camping areas is on a peninsula in the lake), horseback riding, and hunting. Lake Jean is used for swimming, fishing, canoeing and kayaking. In winter there is cross-country skiing, ice fishing on the lake, and ice climbing on the frozen falls. The Glens Natural Area has eight named waterfalls in Glen Leigh and ten in Ganoga Glen, these come together at Waters Meet; downstream in Ricketts Glen there are four to six named waterfalls. The park has four rock formations from the Devonian and Carboniferous periods, and is home to a wide variety of plants and animals. It was named an Important Bird Area by the Pennsylvania Audubon Society and is an Important Mammal Area too. Ricketts Glen State Park was chosen by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) and its Bureau of State Parks as one of "25 Must-See Pennsylvania State Parks". (en)
- Ricketts Glen State Park is een park in de counties Columbia County, Luzerne en Sullivan in de Amerikaanse staat Pennsylvania. Het park trekt elk jaar bijna 500.000 bezoekers en heeft een oppervlakte van 52,8 km². Ricketts Glen is een nationaal park bekend om haar oerbos en 24 watervallen langs Kitchen Creek, die naar beneden stroomt via de Allegheny Plateau naar de Ridge-and-Valley Appalachen. Het park is in de buurt van de stad Benton nabij Pennsylvania Route 118 en Pennsylvania Route 484 en 4 gemeenten. Ricketts Glen's land was ooit de thuisbasis van de Amerikaanse Indianen. Van 1822 tot 1827, werd er een tolweg gebouwd langs de PA-487 in wat nu het park is. De watervallen in het park waren een van de belangrijkste attracties voor een hotel tussen 1873 en 1903, genoemd naar de eigenaar van het hotel, R. Bruce Ricketts, die een spoor had gebouwd langs de watervallen. Tijdens de jaren 90' van 19e eeuw was Ricketts' eigenaar van 320 vierkante kilometer grond in dit park en maakte zijn fortuin door deze grond volledig kaal te kappen. Hij behield ongeveer 810 ha bij de eerste kap in het bos. De zagerij was in het dorp Ricketts, ten noorden van het park. Na zijn dood in 1918, begonnen Ricketts' erfgenamen de grond te verkoop aan de staat van Pennsylvania. (nl)
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- Le parc d’État de Ricketts Glen (anglais : Ricketts Glen State Park) est un parc d'État de 5 280 hectares situé dans les comtés de Columbia, Luzerne et Sullivan en Pennsylvanie, aux États-Unis. National Natural Landmark, il est connu pour ses forêts primaires et ses chutes d'eau. (fr)
- El Ricketts Glen State Park es un parque provincial ubicado en Pensilvania, Estados Unidos, específicamente en los condados de Columbia, Luzerne y Sullivan. Está incluido en el programa federal orientado a la conservación del patrimonio natural estadounidense, y es especialmente notable por su bosque maduro y sus veinticuatro cascadas a lo largo del , que fluyen hacia la escarpa de Allegheny Front, desde la meseta de Allegheny a los Apalaches de Ridge and Valley. (es)
- Ricketts Glen State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on 13,193 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. (en)
- Ricketts Glen State Park is een park in de counties Columbia County, Luzerne en Sullivan in de Amerikaanse staat Pennsylvania. Het park trekt elk jaar bijna 500.000 bezoekers en heeft een oppervlakte van 52,8 km². Ricketts Glen is een nationaal park bekend om haar oerbos en 24 watervallen langs Kitchen Creek, die naar beneden stroomt via de Allegheny Plateau naar de Ridge-and-Valley Appalachen. Het park is in de buurt van de stad Benton nabij Pennsylvania Route 118 en Pennsylvania Route 484 en 4 gemeenten. (nl)
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