The Delaware Water Gap is a landscape of river travel, trout streams, ridges, and a one thousand-foot-deep gap between low forested mountains, where paddlers, anglers, and hikers enjoy the outdoors. The valley has known human presence for ten thousand years, with floodplains that nourished Native farmers and waterfalls that drew Victorian vacationers. Today, a seventy thousand-acre park welcomes people seeking outdoor recreation close to home. In spring, temperatures usually range from lows of twenty-six degrees Fahrenheit to highs of eighty degrees Fahrenheit with average rainfall of five inches. In summer, temperatures usually range from lows of fifty-five degrees Fahrenheit to highs of eighty-five degrees Fahrenheit with average rainfall of four inches. In fall, temperatures usually range from lows of thirty degrees Fahrenheit to highs of eighty-three degrees Fahrenheit, and fall foliage reaches its peak sometime in October as daily mountain temperatures vary frequently and influence the change. In winter, temperatures usually range from lows of fifteen degrees Fahrenheit to highs of forty-nine degrees Fahrenheit.
