South Fork

Worth seeing in and around South Fork

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Johnstown Flood

   The Johnstown Flood, sometimes referred to locally as the Great Flood of 1889, occurred on Friday, May 31, 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, located on the south fork of the Little Conemaugh River, 14 miles upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States. The dam ruptured after several days of extremely heavy rainfall, releasing 14.55 million cubic meters of water.

   3.5 km · massive flood of Johnstown, Pennsylvania caused by the collapse of the South Fork Dam · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Johnstown Flood National Memorial

   The Johnstown Flood National Memorial is a unit of the United States National Park Service in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. Established in 1964 through legislation signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, it pays tribute to the thousands of victims of the Johnstown Flood, who were injured or killed on May 31, 1889 when the South Fork Dam ruptured.

   2.6 km · Historic site commemorating the 1889 flood in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia

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Getting to South Fork

Airports

Pittsburgh (PIT), 123 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 195 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 225 km

• Pittsburgh → South Fork

  102 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · $10–14
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• Dulles → South Fork

  194 km · quickest by road, 4h 42m · $22–30
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• Baltimore → South Fork

  221 km · quickest by road, 4h 40m · $23–31
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No local-transport research exists yet for South Fork

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for South Fork. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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