If you can get out to northwestern New Jersey, manage the bad or missing road signs, cope with the closed roads, and handle two miles of pothole-ridden gravel road, you’ll find it easily.
It’s right on the side of the road, and rises spectacularly up Kittatinny Mountain. Above, trails take you back up the rapids and eventually to the Appalachian Trail. The park service has a built a long and steep staircase up alongside of it, with two strategically placed viewing platforms alongside.
Along the way up on this warm spring afternoon, the recordsetting rainfalls of February and March have encouraged a beautiful display of ferns and mosses.
A forest of hemlock trees hangs on to the rocks.
Oh, and there’s that waterfall. Here’s a little of it.
And a little more.
Measurements of the falls’ height vary from 90 to 200 feet.
It’s another of those “I can’t believe I’m in New Jersey moments,” well worth the confusing drive there.