Wild & Scenic Rivers - Multi-State

Middle Delaware National Scenic and Recreational River (New Jersey, Pennsylvania)

7/20/2009 Up the road a little we saw the walkway that led Appalachian trail hikers across the Delaware on I80 into PA [I went up a short ways for photos of the Delaware, here part of the Middle Delaware National Scenic and Recreational River in NJ and on the Delaware River Water Trail - Middle Delaware Segment NRT].

The Delaware from the AT/I80

Missouri Recreational River (Nebraska, South Dakota)

9/15/2006 Continued up near Crofton to the Lewis and Clark Visitor Center along the Missouri (NPS River [NE]). Beautiful views up the Missouri over the Gavins Point Dam. Looked around the visitor center, then drove across the dam ...

The dam from the VC

Recreation on the river

Saint Croix Scenic Riverway (Minnesota, Wisconsin)

5/26/2000 Ice Age National Scientific Reserve

6/22/2009 Stopped at the St. Croix National River [WSR in WI] VC in St. Croix Falls and checked out the museum exhibits and got brochures. Ice Age National Scientific Reserve

The park sign

The river at the VC

6/2/2018 At this point we followed the JH a little more then jumped off on a 1/2 hour detour to the St. Croix Boom Site NHL. The site commemorates the location of a critical log boom where, from 1856 to 1914, timber from upriver was sorted and stored before being dispatched to sawmills downstream. There wasn’t that much here; we saw a nice plaque and monument, some interpretive signage and a partial view of the St. Croix, but the whole thing was also in the St. Croix NSR NPS [MN] area.

The park sign

The NHL plaque and monument

Logging info ...

... showing lots of logs

The river ...

... looking downstream

Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River (New York, Pennsylvania)

7/5/1996 At Lackawaxen went across the Delaware Aqueduct, which used to carry a canal across the Delaware, but is now a bridge (part of the Upper Delaware Scenic River area [NY, PA]). Went a short ways to writer Zane Grey’s house, where we took a short tour.

The Delaware Aqueduct

Zane Grey's house

5/8/2008 ... then over to Narrowsburg to the Upper Delaware SRR visitor center. It was closed, but picked up pamphlets and checked out nice views of the river. On to Lackawaxen and the Roebling Bridge [Upper Delaware SRR NY, PA]. This is quite cool – it used to carry the Delaware Canal over the Delaware River (mules pulling barges); now pedestrians walk where the mules did and cars drive at the bottom of the water way. [This is in the Delaware and Hudson Canal NHL for both NY and PA] Walked across and back, checked out the toll house, then drove across to the Zane Grey house. This was closed, but a nice NPS ranger let us in briefly.

One park sign ...

... and another for the Aqueduct

A view within the aqueduct

A nice panorama of me enjoying the view of the river from the aqueduct

Zane Grey's house