Lehigh Gorge State Park
| Lehigh Gorge State Park | |
| Protected Area | |
 At Lehigh Gorge State Park, Pennsylvania; Rockport access.
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| Named for: Lehigh Gorge | |
| Country | United States |
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| State | Pennsylvania |
| Counties | Carbon, Luzerne |
| Location | Rockport |
| - elevation | 1,027 ft (313.0 m) |
| - coordinates | 40°57′58″N 75°45′31″W / 40.96611°N 75.75861°WCoordinates: 40°57′58″N 75°45′31″W / 40.96611°N 75.75861°W |
| Northern terminus | |
| - location | Kidder Township |
| - elevation | 1,514 ft (461.5 m) |
| - coordinates | 41°06′21″N 75°43′30″W / 41.10583°N 75.72500°W |
| Southern terminus | |
| - location | Jim Thorpe |
| - elevation | 559 ft (170.4 m) |
| - coordinates | 40°52′21″N 75°44′18″W / 40.87250°N 75.73833°W |
| Area | 4,548 acres (1,841 ha) |
| Founded | 1980 |
| Management | Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources |
| IUCN category | II |
 Location of Lehigh Gorge State Park in Pennsylvania
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| Website: Lehigh Gorge State Park | |
Lehigh Gorge State Park is a 4,548 acres (1,841 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Luzerne and Carbon Counties, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park encompasses the Lehigh Gorge, which stretches along the Lehigh River from a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flood control dam in Luzerne County to Jim Thorpe in Carbon County. The primary recreational activity at Lehigh Gorge State Park is white water rafting.
There are three primary access areas for the park. The northern access point is at White Haven, just off exit 273 of Interstate 80 on Pennsylvania Route 940. This is the important northern entrance into the river cut gully or gap between highlands, and was an important barge loading transshipment point on the newly extended upper Lehigh Canal fed initially by a shortline railroad from the Mountain Top yard dating from the 1837 enabling legislation set up to join the Lehigh and Susquehanna Valleys via Mountain Top and the Ashley Planes incline railway.
The central access point is near Rockport, a few miles off Pennsylvania Route 93 near the borough of Weatherly, where the mountainous terrain is transitional, creating a relatively shallow sloped flat. This area was also historically important regional rail transport.
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