Mather Gorge
Mather Gorge is a river
Great Falls in the state of Maryland bordering Virginia. The Maryland land side of the gorge is Bear Island, part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, and the Virginia side is part of Great Falls Park. Both parks are National Park Service sites. The gorge is named after Stephen Mather
, the first director of the National Park Service.
The gorge is cut by the
Atlantic Coastal Plain
.
top rope climbing
. Generally, most of the rock climbing occurs on the vertical cliffs of the Virginia side of the gorge, below the Observation Decks and above the 90 degree river bend.
whitewater rapids
.
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