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.

Click here to see other parks and monuments in the Washington DC region

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.