“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
~ John Muir
~ 1838-1914
These words of John Muir surely resonated with me as I
took this shot on a warm, late spring evening with sunset approaching, looking
up at the Lehigh Gap Bridge spanning over the Lehigh River to the Kittatinny
Ridge, also called Blue Mountain.
The Lehigh Gap in Slatington, Pennsylvania, is a
crossroads where the Lehigh Gap Nature Center’s trails connect two historic
trails – the Appalachian Trail and the Delaware and Lehigh Heritage Corridor
Trail (D & L Trail).
The Appalachian Trail, a foot path, follows the ridge
on both sides of the Lehigh Gap, running 1,245 miles south to Georgia and 930
miles north to Maine. Running from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail
passes through the Lehigh and Delaware rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.
The Lehigh Gap Bridge was built in 1930 and
rehabilitated in 1984.
