Gorgas Cave
Gorgas Cave is a cave in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania. Gorgas Cave is situated nearby to the trailhead Mt. Airy Avenue Entrance, as well as near the recreation area Salvatore Pachella Memorial Field.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Roxborough Branch Library and The Monastery.
Roxborough Branch Library
Library
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Roxborough Branch Library is situated 2,900 feet southwest of Gorgas Cave.
The Monastery
Historic building
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
The Monastery is a historic stone house in Philadelphia, located on Wissahickon Creek at Kitchens Lane. It was built in 1747 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The Monastery is situated 3,800 feet southeast of Gorgas Cave.
Church of St. Alban, Roxborough
Church
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The Church of St. Alban, Roxborough is a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania in the Roxborough neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1859 as a chapel of ease of St. David's Episcopal Church in Manayunk, initially with a dedication to St. Church of St. Alban, Roxborough is situated 3,400 feet west of Gorgas Cave.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Roxborough and Manayunk.
Roxborough
Neighborhood
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
Roxborough is a neighborhood in Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is bordered to the southwest, along the Schuylkill River, by the neighborhood of Manayunk, along the northeast by the Wissahickon Creek section of Fairmount Park, and to the southeast by the neighborhood of East Falls.
Manayunk
Neighborhood
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Manayunk is a neighborhood in the section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania. Located adjacent to the neighborhoods of Roxborough and Wissahickon and also on the banks of the Schuylkill River, Manayunk contains the first canal begun in the United States.
Wissahickon
Neighborhood
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
Wissahickon is a neighborhood in the section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Wissahickon is located adjacent to the neighborhoods of Roxborough and Manayunk, and it is bounded by the Wissahickon Valley Park, Ridge Avenue, Hermit Street, and Henry Avenue. Wissahickon is situated 1½ miles south of Gorgas Cave.
Gorgas Cave
- Type: Cave
- Category: landform
- Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.04348° or 40° 2′ 37″ northLongitude
-75.21296° or 75° 12′ 47″ westOpen location code
87G62QVP+9ROpenStreetMap ID
node 9912882599OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cave_entrance
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