We were at Ricketts Glen state park this past weekend and this place is simply beautiful.  There is Lake Jean it the top of the 18% grade mountain for swimming, fishing, canoeing and kayaking.  We rented a row boat for the 4 of us to enjoy a packed lunch on one of the islands.

The park offers hiking, ten cabins, camping (one of the two camping areas is on a peninsula in the lake), horseback riding, and hunting.  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.

In 1999 Hurricane Floyd 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.  They also paved in roads, leveled all the camp sites, and reworked the beach with new sand, rebuilt the concession stand and several bath houses.  If only they would have added electric in the campground.Great campground.