The High Plateau is a massive layer cake of deep time. Unlike the jagged, tectonic peaks of the Rockies, the Allegheny Mountains are "disse...

The Jakes Rocks trail system, just across the reservoir, is designed for movement and efficiency. The Tracy Ridge Recreation Area, by contrast, is designed for stillness. It...

The dense, second-growth forests of the Plateau have a way of playing tricks on the mind. Once the sun dips below the ridge of the Allegheny Front, the "official" history of t...

If you spend enough time in the taverns of Tionesta or around a campfire in the Allegheny National Forest, the conversation eventually turns to "The Mine." Not an oil well or ...

To most visitors, Jakes Rocks is a place of breathtaking vistas—a series of stone balconies overlooking the shimmering Allegheny Reservoir. But for the adventurous, the ...

We have previously explored how a colossal Ice Age dam blocked the northward flow of the ancient Allegheny River, turning it south in a dramatic act of "river piracy" (see ...

There is a place in the Allegheny National Forest where the world changes in the span of a single step. To most drivers on Route 6 or hikers on the North Country Trail, the ro...

To stand on the Rimrock Overlook and watch the Allegheny River snake through the deep, timbered throat of the Kinzua Valley is to witness a landscape that, by all rights of ge...

## **THE EDGE OF ETERNITY: How the Ice Age Rebuilt the Allegheny Plateau** **WARREN, PA** — To the casual hiker trekking through the dense black cherry and hemlock of the **Allegheny National For...