Surrounded by his team Friday, Cambria County Conservation and Recreation Authority Executive Director Cliff Kitner proudly said that the Path of the Flood Trail is the No. 1 Pennsylvania Trail of the ...

More than 2,200 people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, died when the South Fork Dam collapsed, sending 20 million tons of water rushing through the town.

On the eve of the 1889 Johnstown Flood’s anniversary, local and state officials gathered to celebrate the Path of the Flood ...

The 136th anniversary of the 1889 Flood will be recognized Saturday. Flood National Memorial will commemorate the victims of the flood that occurred on May 31, 1889, when the South Fork Dam broke, ...

The Path of the Flood Trail has been selected at Pennsylvania's 2025 Trail for several unique reasons. Here's what you need to know.

On Memorial Day 1889, 133 miles northwest of Frederick, the South Fork Dam on the Little Conemaugh River in Pennsylvania burst. Twenty million tons of water surged into the river to Johnstown ...

So cried a citizen of Johnstown, Pa. after the disastrous 1936 flood ... At 3 p.m. on May 31, 1889, flood waters broke through the South Fork Dam, towering twelve miles away and 300 ft.

On May 31, 1889, an 11-inch rain following an already wet spring led to the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam located 14 miles up a narrow canyon from Johnstown, Pa. The water over topped ...

Heavy rains brought the South Fork dam above the city of Johnstown to the brink of collapse. When the structure finally gave in, a 12-meter high (40 ft) wall of water rushed down from the mountain.

In a statement, Johnstown Flood Museum in Cambria County ... The floods were triggered by days of rainfall, due to which the South Fork dam failed, unleashing tonnes of water to the surrounding ...

On May 30, 1889 the South Fork ... dam's owners. The burst dam sent a wall of water and debris, 40 feet high and half a mile wide, 14 miles downstream to the bustling industrial city of Johnstown ...