Ganoga Falls Closeup, Ricketts Glen State Park, Pennsylvania

A black and white view of the base of Ganoga Falls in Ricketts Glen State Park.

Ganoga Falls is the tallest waterfall in the park, and is also the most awesome. It also typifies the "wedding cake" type of waterfall, wherein the water is forced to bounce down a series of rock strata rather than plunging headlong off a sheer precipice.

In this photograph, I have concentrated on the mesmerizing series of cascades that make up the base of the falls.

Ganoga Falls is accessible via a fairly easy hike in the park. It seems as if a lot of people hike to it using the shortest route, then turn around and go back up the way they came rather than making the much more strenuous loop down the length of Ganoga Glen (the "left" or west branch of Kitchen Creek) and up Glen Leigh, the east branch of the creek. Too bad...for them! They don't know what they're missing. This place is a gem.

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