The mysterious forest lies in the heart of America

Despite being surrounded by urban areas, the Allegheny retains the intimacy of its natural landscape and mysteries such as double-sided waterfalls or "thunder" rocks.

A forgotten world

The Allegheny Forest covers a very wide area in northwestern Pennsylvania and southwestern New York, one of the forgotten areas of the flag. This 400,000-hectare Allegheny has no major cities, battlefields or historical sites, so nature remains as intact as the first residents arrived. In fact, no other area in the northeastern United States has many large forests, rivers and streams, trails and rock formations like this place. Along with important industrial history, Allegheny became the ideal place to become the first national park between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes.

Paradise for people who like hiking

This area consists of many hills and valleys and formed by the movement of hundreds of rivers and streams running through the mountains and forests. Allegheny is a paradise for hikers, likes to explore remote areas and a variety of terrain from cliffs to old forests. The most prominent is the 150km North Country National Scenic Trail which passes through Allegheny. It starts in New York, stretches 7,400km across 7 states and ends in North Dakota.

"Fire" forest

A part of Allegheny is located inside the Pennsylvania state of nearly 200,000 hectares of forest. During the fall, forest trees turn leaves to red, bright orange like burning fires, but not as many people see as in New England - the season of yellow leaves, red is very easy to see on farms or vines. the way.

The lake has a dark past

Lake Kinzua dates from 1965 along with the Kinzua Dam built on the Allegheny River. Today, visitors often swim or sail on the reservoir without knowing much about the history of the place. Almost all of the floating lands here belonged to the Seneca tribe. Hundreds of families living here were forced to leave when the valley was flooded. During the dry season, the solid foundation of indigenous American residents is still found on the lake bed. Although there is a lot of controversy about the history of the lake, the scenery here is hard to deny.

Hometown of a hero

One of the most beautiful roads in the eastern United States is Route 62 , running along the Allegheny River, which is 96km longer than the cities of Warren and Flanklin in Pennsylvania. Driving along this route, visitors not only see cliffs, valleys and rivers but also many beautiful cities. Route 62 runs through the city of Tionesta, home to Howard Zahniser hero. He is the author of the Wilderness Act of 1964, helping preserve hundreds of thousands of hectares of American natural land.

Ideal location for picnics

New York Allegany Park created a northern border with the Allegheny forest. The park is also home to many visitors because of its wooden lodges, boat rentals, bike paths, playgrounds and picnic areas located by Red House Lake.

Special stones

To explore the differences in Allegany park, visit Thunder Rocks (Thunder Rocks). Unlike the famous rock cities in the north-east made up of glacier movement, these rocks were created by sediment when the Catskill Mountains formed. Thunder Rocks was once buried deep in the mud, but over time it was exposed because of erosion.

A natural "refrigerator"

One of the least explored areas in Allegany Park is a 11m tall Bridal Falls that flows along a small creek that acts like a natural "refrigerator" . On hot days, the air in this flow is several degrees cooler than the surrounding valley. However, this waterfall is not on the map, want to find where you have to have a ranger or a local resident.

Double-sided waterfall

The Allegheny is home to many waterfalls, most of which are hidden deep within the forest.Hector Falls is located near Ludlow, Pennyslvania, which is one of America's most exotic waterfalls. A rectangular stone face separates the Hector waterfall, forming two streams of water from different sides.

The starting place for oil boom

Drake Well may be America's most important historical monument, even the world that few people know about. In the late 1850s, ship leader Edwin Drake poured all his money into a model oil well in Titusville, Pennyslvania. This is also the first oil well in the world dug up on the ground. The project successfully promoted the explosion of oil exploitation worldwide and helped this industry continue to grow to this day.

Life in Allegheny

Driving around the Allegheny, you can stop in the beautiful countryside in the middle of the jungle. Between the mountains, the land expands into many large valleys, where families use their land to cultivate, cultivate and raise cattle.