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Get to the wooden divided bridge and you'll be there. The train tracks will be on your left as you drive in.

You will pass several areas with no apparent trail heads. Once you enter the park, drive all the way to the parking area at the end of the road. The entrance for the park is just across the gorge from Jim Thorpe. The trailhead is in Lehigh Gorge State Park. Here is a recap to help you explore this trail if you come the state park for a hike. We came to explore the well-rated Lehigh Gorge State Park trails and ended up on a challenging loop on the Glen Onoko Falls Trail. The memorial site contains a large engraved headstone and surrounding statues of the athlete in action, as well as a small informational garden area with a sculpture called "The Spirit of Thunder and Lightning," a nod to Thorpe's Indian name, Wa-Tho-Huk, which means Bright Path, or Path Lit By Lightning. An appeals judge ruled in favor of the town in 2014, keeping a memorial built to honor the American Indian legend undisturbed. In the past few years, Jim Thorpe's sons have tried to get the athlete's remains returned to his native Sac and Fox Nation lands in Oklahoma. The towns united as Jim Thorpe, Pa., and the village essentially is legally regarded as a museum. Patricia Thorpe, the third wife of the legendary Olympian and football and baseball player, approached leaders of the financially struggling towns and asked whether they wanted to consider joining the boroughs, renaming the village in honor of Jim Thorpe and having the joined municipality as his final resting place. Thorpe's widow, Patricia, sought to have her husband's legacy properly secured and approached the small towns in the Pocono Mountains with an offer. The world's greatest athlete died at the age of 64 on March 28, 1953. The towns of East Mauch Chunk and Mauch Chunk joined together to become Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, in 1954. After a long, cruel winter, this turned out to be a fantastic outing in a new place that we probably will now visit again and again.īut first, how about a bit of interesting history (I found it fascinating, at least) before my trail review. We conquered this difficult trail as our first hike of the year. Living in Central New Jersey, this was a convenient spot to try - about two hours away in the town of Jim Thorpe, where we discovered the popular Glen Onoko Falls Trail. The Lehigh Gorge offers dozens of miles of great hiking routes.