Pennsylvania Canyon

The Pennsylvania Grand Canyon was one of our destinations on our fall foliage trip this year. It’s located in north central Pennsylvania just west of Wellboro.

Unfortunately we were at least a week too late for fall foliage. The leaves were on the ground and their color fading. Colton Point State Park is on the western side of the canyon and has primitive facilities compared to the state park on the other side - Leonard Harrison State Park. There are a visitor facilities and overlook into the canyon from that eastern side of the canyon. Both also have hiking trails which we did not investigate on this trip.

The temperature had been in the 20s when we set out from Owego, New York earlier in the morning and was still cold. We enjoyed a short and quick hike along the rim in Colton State Park. A fall foliage trip is probably not complete without some wading through leaves and this was the place to do it.

We had warmed up in the car on the short drive over to Leonard Harrison State Park. The temperature had gotten a little warmer and there was a Boy Scout troop cooking hamburgers and hot dogs for the crowd; they were getting some customers even though it was only about 10:30. The oak trees that hold on to their leaves a little longer and the pines are certainly to be appreciated when the fall itself has come and gone!