Top 15 Things To Do in Bushkill, Pennsylvania

A concentrated corridor of waterfalls, woodland trails, and river-cut gorges, Bushkill offers compact hikes that feel larger than their maps. Walkboard routes and family loops sit alongside steep ridge scrambles and riverbank treks—perfect for a half-day escape or a multi-activity weekend that pairs hiking with paddling, fishing, and leaf-peeping.

Bushkill is a quietly magnetic pocket of the Poconos for paddlers: short technical creek runs, broad flatwater stretches, and easy-access launch points make it ideal for a range of kayak outings. From mellower family floats on the Delaware River to pocket whitewater on feeder streams and scenic wildlife bogs, Bushkill lets you build a day around the water without long drives or complicated logistics.

Bushkill’s waterways are a quiet, scenic counterpoint to the region’s forested trails and waterfalls. Boat rental options — from kayaks and canoes to pontoons and small motorboats — open up a slow, intimate way to explore river bends, quiet coves, and wide reservoir surfaces. This guide focuses on practical planning for renting a boat in and around Bushkill: access, seasons, skill levels, safety, and how to pair a day on the water with hiking, fishing, or waterfall visits.

Bushkill’s city-tour appeal is quiet and tactile: a compact town threaded with riverfront walks, old mill remnants, painted storefronts and access to dramatic outdoor features. These walking routes mix natural spectacle with small-town history—making the experience as much about listening to water and birdcalls as it is about tasting local cider and learning who shaped the valley. This guide focuses on curated walking and slow-mobility tours through Bushkill’s core and its immediate outdoor edges, with practical notes on terrain, seasonality, and how to combine a town stroll with nearby hikes, paddling, and foliage viewing.

Bushkill is best known for a concentrated set of scenic highlights—cascading falls, forested ridgelines, and a broad sweep of the Delaware River valley—that make it ideal for curated sightseeing tours. Whether you prefer a short, family-friendly boardwalk loop past plunging waterfalls, a guided naturalist walk that teases apart local ecology, or a slow scenic drive that peels back layers of industrial and Indigenous history, the tours here are compact, visual, and easy to combine with nearby hiking, paddling, and fall foliage excursions.

Nestled where forested ridgelines meet the meandering Delaware River, Bushkill offers a compact but rich palette of air-based experiences—scenic small-plane flights, dawn hot-air balloon trips, tandem paragliding when conditions permit, and discovery flights that turn familiar waterfalls and ridges into a new kind of map. This guide focuses on airborne perspectives: the logistics, seasonal windows, terrain that shapes the air, and how to layer nearby ground adventures for a full-day outing.

Bushkill is a surprising freshwater scuba hub tucked into the Poconos, where spring-fed clarity, vertical quarry walls, and cold-water thermoclines create an approachable but compelling environment for certified divers. This guide focuses on the region's scuba experiences—quarry training sites, clear-lake leisure dives, seasonal ice-diving opportunities, and how to pair dives with waterfall hikes and paddling on calm surface days.

Where limestone streams thread through hemlock hollows and ridgelines funnel migratory birds, Bushkill is a small but concentrated classroom of northeastern wildlife. This guide focuses on the region's best wildlife encounters—birding along the Delaware River, amphibian and salamander hunts around forested streams, river otter and beaver activity in quiet coves, and seasonal chances to glimpse raptors riding the Kittatinny winds. It blends trail-side stories with practical planning so you can arrive prepared and leave with memories, not disturbance.

Hovering above the Poconos, an air tour unspools the familiar into something cinematic: braided rivers become silver threads, autumn hills a quilt of flame, and the steep-sided gorge of the Delaware Water Gap reads like a topographic relief model seen for the first time. In and around Bushkill, small-plane and helicopter flights—plus seasonal balloon operations—offer short, accessible windows into a landscape best understood from the sky. This guide focuses on what to expect, how to prepare, and which moments to chase from above.

Bushkill sits at the edge of the Delaware Water Gap and the Pocono foothills, where quiet country roads, converted rail-trails, and mixed-surface byways form an inviting loop system for bike touring. These rides range from family-friendly riverside pedals to gravel routes that brush past farmland and Appalachian ridgelines. Expect scenic creek crossings, gentle climbs, roadside orchards, and easy access to complementary outdoor pursuits—hiking at nearby falls, paddling the Delaware, and seasonal wildlife viewing.

Bushkill’s bus tours are a quietly efficient way to fold the region’s waterfalls, forested ridgelines, and river valleys into a single, portable vantage point. From narrated scenic loops through the Poconos to shuttle-and-hike combos that drop you at trailheads, the local bus-tour scene is built for easy access to the region’s outdoors without the parking scramble or the logistics of multiple drives.

Bushkill sits at the eastern edge of the Poconos where calm river flats, sheltered coves, and moving-water stretches meet forested ridgelines. For standup paddleboarders the area offers an unusual mix: placid summer flatwater for first-timers, scenic shoreline paddles with cliff and waterfall views, and short current runs that test edging and ferry skills. This guide focuses on where to paddle, when to go, what to pack, and how to layer SUP trips with hiking, fishing, and regional culture.