New Paris, Pennsylvania - Gravity Hill
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- New Paris, PA [Show Map]
- Directions:
- North from Schellsburg on Hwy 96, about 4 miles. Left onto Bethel Hollow Rd., just before the bridge. Drive 6/10s of a mile, then bear left at the Y, then 1.5 miles more. Make a right at the intersection onto Gravity Hill Rd. A "GH" is spray-painted on the road 2/10s of a mile in, a second is 1/10 further. Take your foot off of the brake at the second "GH" and roll backwards, uphill. There's also a second, lesser gravity hill 3/10 of a mile past the second GH. Stop at the telephone pole marked "69" and roll uphill again.
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New Paris, Pennsylvania - Gravity Hill The Bedford County Visitors Bureau has really been pushing this obscure attraction, with billboards along the Pennsylvania Turnpike and cute retro brochures at every rest area. While that's more than most "spook hills" get, for now this attraction is just the brochures and billboards and a couple of "GH"s spray painted onto an otherwise hidden county road.
Still -- it's a very rare "double" gravity hill. And the "official" status may discourage local law enforcement from penalizing backwards drivers. [Roadsideamerica.com Team, 10/31/2005]
New Paris, Pennsylvania - Gravity Hills of New Paris Just outside of the tiny town of New Paris, PA there
are two gravity hills on the same road! The first hill
is by far the most dramatic. It has a .1 mile
rollback, putting it on par with the Burkittsville, MD hill. The
rollback speed was over 7 mph, fairly fast for a G-hill. As an
added bonus, water appears to flow uphill in the small valley located
to the left of the hill. The picture shows the mini-van
in the distance where the rollback starts, and I was standing roughly
where the rollback ended.
The second New Paris hill is located about 3/10 mile past the first hill. While this is a nice nill, the rollback is shorter and the top rolling speed is less than that of the New Paris Hill #1. New Paris Hill #2 most closely resembles Booger Hill down in Georgia as far as rollback distances and top speeds.
With two gravity hills on the same road and the added bonus of water appearing to run uphill I searched around for evidence of a vortex. There was a leaning shack near the base of the first hill, but it appears that the shack leans due to natural gravitation forces over time. I didn't have the traditional vortex testing broom, but I did have a Hertz Ice Scraper but I am sad to report that I could not get the ice scraper to stand on end anywhere near the hills. In addition, no twisted tree trunks could be found in the area.
But this should not stop anyone from actually visiting the hills! This appears to be the only place with two gravity hills on the same road. [Greg Brown, 04/23/2001]
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