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Dingmans Falls

Stream Dingmans Creek

Greater watershed Delaware River → Delaware Bay

Height Hard to guess. I'll go with 30m/98ft

Form Two drops—a straight plunge and then a long slide

Volume Consistently thundery

General location Delaware Water Gap

Specific location about 20 miles up Route 209 from Bushkill, and about 20 miles down route 209 from Milford; township is called Dingmans Ferry I think

Trail access Boardwalk with interpretive signs, ~10 minutes—probably handicapped accessible. Also a long flight of stairs to the top

Bonus waterfall Right at the start of the boardwalk a little side stream drops in from river left, over the same escarpment that formed this waterfall (and all the other waterfalls on the PA side of the Delaware Water Gap). The signs call it Silverthread Falls. It's pretty, but definitely a secondary attraction.

 

Here's another one I'm not happy with my pictures of. Perhaps with more justification than at Bash Bish. When I first visited, it was in the days when I still had a cheap camera without manual settings, and due to the low light conditions and technological limitations, my pictures were without exception blurry and poorly exposed. On making a special waterfall hunting trip to the area in 2011 I brought along my new camera and tripod and resolved to get some nice photos this time. Lo and behold, it was pouring rain, and almost without exception my pictures from that trip are covered in water droplets. I'd visit again to get a new set of photos, but I fear what might go wrong next.

 

There are more than a dozen major waterfalls in the Delaware Water Gap area, concentrated mostly on the Pennsylvania side but with a couple in New Jersey as well. Along with nearby Raymondskill Falls, Dingmans is among the most prominent, and the easy trail makes it worth visiting for anyone who happens to be in the area. For waterfall hunters visiting the Gap, I've personally visited Raymondskill Falls (the best in the region, but I don't have good photos of it, so no upload), three small waterfalls in Childs Park upstream from Dingmans Falls and a waterfall on a stream that the USGS topo maps don't bother to name, and am also aware of falls on Adams and Hornbecks Creeks, an elusive fall near Gifford Pinchot's house in Milford, the obvious Bushkill Falls, a Winona Falls on Saw Creek in a (I think) private community, the eponymous Resica Falls (and one or two waterfalls further upstream on the same creek) and a few others you should be able to locate without much difficulty. You could probably hit most of them in a day or two if you hike fast. ;)

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