Cutting through the Delaware Water Gap

We traveled through the Delaware Water Gap between Pennsylvania and New Jersey on Monday morning. This is the place where the Delaware river has cut through a set of mountains and now Interstate-80 follows the river through too. You really do get a sense of there being a gap as you travel through. The first picture is approaching the gap from the west.


The river and the road run side-by-side at the tightest part of the gap. This is the muddiest that we have ever seen the Delaware- must be from the horrendous thunderstorms they had upstream last week (8" in 3 hours in one storm we read about).


The road takes a bend right after the gap and heads to New York City- which is about 70 miles from here