Despite the quiet, you won’t starve here; the area is dotted with restaurants and taverns. While choosing my meals, I tried to stick to what I call “the ketchup rule”: I ordered only things that I’d normally put ketchup on. It worked. At local taverns and family restaurants, I did well with fried egg breakfasts, burgers and even liver and onions. At a barbecue truck down the road from the Falls Trail parking lot, the sauce took the place of ketchup, and the food was fine.
This isn’t the sort of place you’d visit if you were looking for luxury or glitz, but as so many other nearby natural areas get built up and gentrified, Ricketts Glen remains untouched — a place where those who want nothing more than a walk in the wilderness and a warm bed afterward can have an experience they’ll remember for a very long time.
STAYING THERE
Ricketts Glen Hotel
221 Route 118
Benton, Pa.
570-477-3656
www.rickettsglenhotel.net
A local hiker-filled tavern/restaurant with clean, quiet rooms out back. Double rooms from about $55.
Mattress & Muffin Inn
240 Main St.,
Benton, Pa.
570-925-5466
www.mattressandmuffin.com
A comfortable bed-and-breakfast inn. Rooms from about $85.
EATING THERE
Trail’s End Restaurant
817 Route 118,
Sweet Valley, Pa.
570- 477-2556
A simple country restaurant with solid breakfasts, burgers, fried-fish platters, ice cream, pies and more. Dinner entrees are about $10.
Smokehouse Bar-B-Que
Corner of Routes 118 and 487
Red Rocks, Pa.
570-925-6962
A food truck serving Texas-style barbecued beef and chicken. Platters are about $8.
PLAYING THERE
Ricketts Glen State Park
695 Route 487, Benton
570-477-5675
www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks
Contact the park for trail maps, information and conditions, as well as information on campsites, cabin rentals and boat rentals.
Yarvin is a food and travel writer based in New Jersey.
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