Sunday 16th July 2023
Five miles from Rifle Gap State Park is Rifle Falls State Park. We got going early on Sunday morning to visit the Falls as I had read it gets very busy and there was limited parking. We arrived just after the 8am opening and had the place to ourselves. We took Morgan with us and she enjoyed exploring the caves though she did not like the Falls. Morgan does not do water!
https://cpw.state.co.us/placestogo/Parks/RifleFalls
The Falls are very unusual, most falls are water falling from a mountain, cliffs, hill but these falls were created by limestone deposits in the river that slowly raised upwards creating cliffs and caves.
There was a great trail that looped around the Falls, caves and a pond with some great viewing spots of the Falls and the valley and mountains.
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| Limestone |
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| View from the top of the park |
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| Viewing gantry looking over the falls |
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| One of the falls flow was directed by a big pipe |
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| What's up there Dad? Let's go see. |
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| A cave behind the largest fall |
We really enjoyed walking around and were glad we once again visited somewhere early as it got busy as we were leaving after 9.15am and the parking lot was almost full.
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