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Pine Creek Gorge
1936
near Wellsboro, Pennsylvania
Snottywong · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A thousand-foot gorge that the lumber barons stripped to bare rock by 1900, then abandoned. The CCC replanted it in the thirties and the forest healed so completely that the state now markets it as the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania with a straight face. The rail line along the creek is a 62-mile bike trail, and bald eagles nest where the log drives ran.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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