Andrew Dingman established a ferry service here for travelers crossing the Delaware River in 1735. The Dingman family operated the ferry on and off for 165 years, and in 1900 the service ended with the construction of the bridge here. Today the same landing used by the Dingmans provides riverside picnic access and a place to launch boats. The surrounding Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area includes 40 miles of the Middle Delaware National Scenic and Recreational River, 67,000 acres of forested mountains, riverine valleys, and fertile floodplains, tumbling waters, rhododendron ravines, hemlock forests, the Delaware Water Gap, more than 100 miles of hiking trails along streams, ridges, and mountaintops, 27 miles of the Appalachian Trial, more than 100 miles of scenic roadways, historic villages, structures, and landscapes from the valley's colonial past, and agricultural fields farmed for more than a thousand years.
