Kitchen Creek (Pennsylvania)

It then turns south-southwest and enters a deep valley known as the Kitchen Creek Gorge, traveling over numerous waterfalls as it passes through Ricketts Glen State Park, where it receives the tributaries Shingle Cabin Brook and Maple Spring Brook.

Upon leaving Ricketts Glen State Park, the creek turns south-southeast and receives the tributary Boston Run.

The creek flows through rock formations made of sandstone and shale.

The Kitchen Creek Falls, a system of waterfalls and rapids, flows through Ricketts Glen State Park.

[4] The watershed (or drainage basin) of Kitchen Creek has an area of 20.10 square miles (52.1 km2).

Other plants in the ravines include Braun's holly fern, swamp currant, great-spurred violet, and white twisted-stalk[5] A bird species known as Swainson's thrush is found in the ravines of Kitchen Creek.

[5] Virgin timber was present at the headwaters of Kitchen Creek as late as the early 1900s.