• Winter sunrise, Kittatinny Ridge

    Delaware Water Gap

    National Recreation Area NJ,PA

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Features: Groups in the Park

Most of the features below were first published in the park's newsletters, Spanning the Gap (STG, 1985 to 2007) or Guide to the Gap (GTG, 2011 - ), or appeared in the National Park Service's CRM (Cultural Resource Management) Magazine (CRM). For related page in this website for each feature, look up the feature under
NEWS: Park Newspaper>Archive of Back Issues, by year (STG or GTG), or under
NEWS: Park Newspaper>CRM Magazine, by topic

Native American People and Colonial American People (under Collections)

 

Groups and Organizations in the Park
Boy Scout Camps along the Delaware ( STG: Summer 1999 Vol 21 No. 2) reminiscences by a former camper of the five boy scouts camps that have were located in what is now the recreation area.
Twenty years a Weygadt Scout: Photo Gallery of the Robert Noll Collection ( STG : Summer 1999 Vol 21 No. 2) Photo collection of a Camp Weygadt scout
Map of the Boy Scout Camps, Camp Profiles and Patches (under Exhibits On Line)
Down by the Riverside ( STG: Fall 2001 Vol. 23, No. 3) A day with Kittatinny Canoes' River Clean-up.
On and Under the Delaware: 15 Years of the River Clean-up ( STG: Winter 2004/2005 Vol. 26, No. 2) The annual event sponsored by Kittatinny Canoes.
Additional material
• Photo Gallery: The River Clean-Up

Did You Know?

Sketch of a dam with forests on the river banks.

... that the reservoir of the proposed Tocks Island Dam would have inundated 30 miles of the Delaware River and 30,000 acres of its river valley (now part of Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.) The defeat of the dam was an early victory of the environmental movement in this country. More...