 At last he reached "The Point", which he wrote was "the jutting terminus of a high ridge which not only commands a capital view of the opposite mountain, but also of the Pine Creek Valley, up and down for miles".The land on which Colton Point State Park sits was sold to the Commonwealth in the late 19th century for by the Pennsylvania Joint Land and Lumber Company, which had no further use for it.Elsewhere in the gorge the state bought land abandoned by lumber companies, sometimes for less than .