In our older age, we look for "awe" in parks with trails through forests, alone streams or rivers, and if we are lucky, with waterfalls.
Roaring Run Recreation Area is one such place in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
An easy path follows a steady stream up to a roaring waterfalls.
Higher along the valley the stream is enclosed in layered sandstone.
After about a mile the trail meets a 30 foot waterfalls.
Go here for a video of the falls: https://www.facebook.com/100095447405034/videos/pcb.692289927295915/2143189923153407
Aside the trail is the remains of the historic 1840 Roaring Run iron ore furnace.
In NE Ohio, near Cleveland is the Cuyahoga Valley National Park
The park is long and narrow and follows the old Ohio - Erie Canal and the Cuyahoga River.
Withing the park are old towns, a ski hill, waterfalls and a gorge.
Ledges Gorge trail along massive walls of moss-covered sandstone.
Brandywine falls are the highlight of the park.
Go here for a video of the falls: https://www.facebook.com/100095447405034/videos/pcb.692289927295915/718884024349775
Brandywine falls from the top
Tinker's Creek and Gorge from above.
Waterfall Glen is an ecological area in DuPage County, Illinois, NE of Chicago.
A small waterfall (Rocky Glen waterfall) can be found on Sawmill Creek as it flows through sandstone rocks. The park surrounds the Argonne National Laboratory and includes a forest preserve.
