Great Falls Park

A few weekends ago, Dallin and I decided to go and enjoy the great outdoors.  We had heard that Great Falls Park was a fun place to go and see so we packed a picnic and headed down there.  This park is only about 20 minutes from our house and has the steepest waterfalls of any eastern river.  As we drove out to the park we were surprised to see how fast we went from being right in the middle of the city to being almost in the country.  We went from crowded city streets to a two lane highway in the middle of a forest in about 15 minutes.  We got there and parked and then decided to take a little hike to see the falls before we ate dinner. The hike to the falls ended up being really short which was good because it was super hot and humid, but the views were pretty good.  The Potomac is a big river and so it in this gorge that it goes through there are a ton of water falls! We also got to see some crazy kayakers going down the water falls.  Here's a picture of the falls.

And here is a picture of Dallin and a fuzzy little friend that he found on his water bottle after dinner.

It was a fun Saturday and we were excited to find some outdoor things to do close to home!