Shippen Township

The rain is finally stopped and we are off to hike the Pine Creek Rail The 62-mile well--maintained trail runs at the bottom of überscenic Pine Creek Gorge, commonly called the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania. This day we did about 7 miles R\T from Darling Run access point (roughly mile marker 8).

The first line that operated in the corridor was the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railway in 1883. Over the years, other rail lines operated here, with Conrail being the last; trains stopped running down the tracks in 1988.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) S-155 Darling Run Camp was directly on Pine Creek and accessible by the New York Central Railroad– now the Pine Creek Rail Trail. The boys of this camp developed the two Pennsylvania Grand Canyon State Parks – Leonard Harrison and Colton Point.
To honor and commemorate the hard work and accomplishments of the CCC, established on March 31, 1933, by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a CCC Worker Statue was created to be placed across the nation, primarily in sites where they worked. I included a photo of CCC Worker statue here although it is located in the Leonard Harrison State Park by the Visitors Area.

For more info on CCC you can reference https://paconservationheritage.org/stories/the-…Read more