Located just a stone's throw from the Kinzua Dam, the Trails at Jakes Rocks have transformed the Allegheny National Forest into a premier mountain biking destination. Unlike t...

The Allegheny River is the defining waterway of the High Plateau. Starting as a small spring in Pennsylvania, it gathers strength as it loops through New York and back south...

The weather on the Allegheny High Plateau does not follow the rules of Pennsylvania. Ask any seasoned local, and they will tell you that a sunny forecast in Erie or Pittsbur...

The peaceful, clear water of the Allegheny Reservoir—the same water we paddled in our recent guides—hides a dynamic and painful history. The creation of the Kinz...

Before the Kinzua Dam was built in the 1960s, the Allegheny River was a different beast. It was faster, shallower, and held secrets in its deepest "eddies"—the swirling ...

If you’ve ever been on the Allegheny at dusk, when the water turns the color of cold tea and the fog rolls off the hills, you’ve likely felt it: the sensation that...

When the earthmovers began carving out the foundation for the Kinzua Dam in the early 1960s, they weren’t just moving dirt; they were unearthing layers of time. Among th...

If you boat across the glass-calm waters of the Allegheny Reservoir on a quiet morning, you are floating over a lost world. Sixty feet below your hull lies the main street of ...

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...