Since I moved here, I’ve done a lot of exploring around this beautiful area. Some highlights:
The Delaware and Lehigh Rail Trail, which goes from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol through the Lehigh Valley. I’ve biked sections in Bethlehem/Easton, Northampton, and Jim Thorpe.
Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center, a park to the northeast with lots of multi-use trails.
French Creek State Park, a big forested area next to Hopewell Furnace, a preserved old timey mill village.
Ricketts Glen State Park, a park with 21 waterfalls where I went on a waterfall photography trip. I learned some new tricks for getting silky smooth shots of the water.
Centralia, an abandoned town where an underground coal fire has been burning since 1962. It’s since been reclaimed by shrubs and graffiti artists. Nearby are some excellent gravel roads and mountain bike trails running between Routes 54 and 42.
The Ironton Rail Trail which runs past several train cars on display and the old Coplay Cement Company kilns.
Huge mushrooms
Caboose
On IRT
Coplay Kilns
On the Ironton Rail Trail
Graffiti Highway
Some clear patches of highway remain.
Graffiti Highway
This abandoned stretch of route 61, once covered with graffiti, was recently filled in with mounds of dirt by locals.
Ventilation pipe
Installed to allow underground gases to escape.
Unknown street
Centralia
View to the church
Centralia
Front steps leading nowhere
Centralia
Lonely house
One of five houses left in the town.
Railroad Ave.
Centralia
Centralia overlook
This town, abandoned in the 1900s because of an underground coal fire, has been taken over by vegetation and graffiti.
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church
The last church standing in Centralia, PA
Mount Carmel, PA
A sleepy town in the hills
Anthracite fire co.
Waterfall II
At Rickett’s Glen
Waterfall I
At Rickett’s Glen
Creek
At Rickett’s Glen
Spider
At Rickett’s Glen State Park
Horse and Sheep
At Hopewell Furnace
Water wheel
At Hopewell Furnace
Blacksmith’s shop
At Hopewell Furnace
Hopewell Furnace
An old preserved village
Across Lehigh Gap
Hills
From the A.T.
Knife’s edge
The House on the Hill
Lehigh River from Lehigh Gap
Locomotive III
There sure are a lot of trains around these parts
Locomotive II
In Jim Thorpe
Race Street
In Jim Thorpe
Classics
In Jim Thorpe
Thou Shalt Not Park
In Jim Thorpe
Pocono Whitewater mural
Lehigh Gorge
Lehigh Gorge mural
Buttermilk falls
North of Jim Thorpe
Cavern
On the D&L trail north of Jim Thorpe
Lehigh river
At Jim Thorpe
Froggo
At Jacobsburg
Monarch
At Jacobsburg
Birdhouse
At Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center
Echinacea flowers
Easton square statue
Easton center square
Bridge detail
Locomotive
Easton
Easton seen across the Lehigh river
Lockkeeper’s House
On D&L Trail, Bethlehem
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Centralia looks like a scene from the closing chapters of “The Stand” or “Earth Abides”. Love your detail; rocks, spiders, frogs are the best.
Centralia looks like a scene from the closing chapters of “The Stand” or “Earth Abides”. Love your detail; rocks, spiders, frogs are the best.