Triple Continental Divide in Pennsylvania 🗺️
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About Triple Continental Divide in Pennsylvania ....
Pennsylvania has is home to Triple Continental Divide in Potter County. Situated in close proximity to Gold, PA, to the north of Route 6, this location marks the origin of three significant rivers: the Allegheny River, the Genesee River, and Pine Creek. It is the sole Triple Continental Divide found east of the Mississippi River in the United States.
More about Gold, Pennsylvania...
The headwaters of three famed tributaries—Pine Creek and the Genesee and Allegheny rivers—begin their descent from a 2,500-foot hill near Gold, Pa., each flowing downstream through its own unspoiled wilderness in northern Pennsylvania. In the heart of “God’s Country,” as it’s called, this area contains some of the state’s few remaining wilderness trout watersheds and a significant number of Class A Wild Trout and naturally reproducing trout waters.
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