Great Falls Park, Virginia

Great Falls Park

Click here to start a tour of the Great Falls Park, Virginia. Click on any of the images to continue to the next page in the linked series of web pages. Or, see a thumbnail gallery.

Great Falls Park is one of the oldest park locations in the country. It currently encompasses a very scenic seven mile stretch along the Potomac River in the vicinity of the Great Falls (falls and rapids) and Mather Gorge. The park is located on the Virginia side of the river. The Chesapeak and Ohio Canal National Historic Park is located on the Virginia side of the river.

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Great Falls	Mather Gorge	Mather Gorge	Great Fall Park trail stairs

Wissahickon Formation	Mather Gorge	Falls and River Terraces	Falls and River Terraces

Great Falls	Great Falls	Mather Gorge	Great Falls

Great Falls Visitor Center	Mather Gorge	Great Falls	Falls Overlook

Falls Overlook	Precambiran rock outcrop	Falls Overlook	Great Falls from overlook

Great Falls	Historic high water marks	Picknic area trees	Park trail in snow

Pothole in gneiss	Mather Gorge	Pothole in gneiss	Pothole in gneiss

Mather Gorge	Mather Gorge	Historic Patowmack Canal	3D Photographer Phil

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Click here to learn more about Great Falls Park website: http://www.nps.gov/grfa).

See selected references about Great Falls Park geology.

Photography on this website was taken in 2006. This website contains images produced from stereo photo pairs that were manipulated into anaglyphs (3-D images). You will need red-and-cyan stereo viewing glasses to get the 3-D visual effects.

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This page is <https://gotbooks.miracosta.edu/gonp/grfa/>
Last modified 1/7/2011