• Winter sunrise, Kittatinny Ridge

    Delaware Water Gap

    National Recreation Area NJ,PA

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  • River Safety, River Road

    River Road is closed 6/18-20 from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM for routine repair. ... Until river levels drop, swimming is prohibited and life jackets muist be worn on any vessel on the rriver within the park. More »

Be A Junior Ranger

All activities listed below are intended for children and youth to use in the park.The programs vary in difficulty from a one-day of fun activities to some serious searching for answers, but all the programs are linked to visiting the park and seeing and experiencing the park first-hand.

The Web Ranger program is an on line National Parks activity.

 

Programs for this park

• Kids can become a Junior Park Ranger at this park and earn an iron-on cloth patch and an Junior Park Ranger badge.
• The Adventure Guide for Teens is a 16-page color booklet that introduces youth to the Appalachian Trail (AT) within this park and enables them to become AT Junior Rangers.

Did You Know?

2012_dykHEMLOCK

... that hemlock groves in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area are threatened by a non-native insect, the hemlock woolly adelgid. Hemlocks provide shade for spectacular rhodondenron, for trout streams, and for native wildflowers. As hemlocks weaken and die, they are cut down for your safety. More...