Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Nov 29 Hanging Rock


Tonight our group, Friends of Sauratown Mountains is meeting at the hanging Rock Rock State Park Visitors Center for our annual meeting. Former Hanging Rock SP superintendent, Dave Cook is presently a program entitled "The best of Hanging Rock you have never seen". Dave has spent much free and official time roaming the off trail areas of the park exploring. His program highlighted many caves, waterfalls, Cascade Gorge, Huckleberry Ridge, Flat Shoals Mountain, the Three Sisters and other interesting spots. 

There is a lot to explore at Hanging Rock. Prior to the meeting I hiked up Hanging Rock and relaxed. These are a couple shots I took while there.


Two spots which caught my attention during Dave's Program were the May 1963 plane crash on one of the sisters and the relativity large cave in Hanging Rock (in the namesake rock). Hopefully I'll be highlighting them in a blog soon.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hey, I saw an artical about the plane crash and then in reading your blog see there is much more to hanging rock. Do you possibly have a map of the features that arent listed in the normal brouchours? aka the caves waterfalls plane site etc? thanks

greenmon said...

Josh, The Friends of Sauratown Mountains are hosting a "members only" hike to and presentation of the plane crash this Saturday Feb 15 at the visitors center 10am. You can become a member at the event for $15.

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