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A swimming hole near Shamokin, Pennsylvania. A swimming hole is a place in a river, stream, creek, spring, or similar natural body of water, which is large enough and deep enough for a person to swim in. Common usage usually refers to fresh, moving water and thus not to oceans or lakes.
Plunge pools are formed by the natural force of falling water, such as at a waterfall or cascade; they also result from man-made structures such as some spillway designs. [3] Plunge pools are often very deep, generally related to the height of the fall, the volume of water, the resistance of the rock below the pool and other factors. [ 4 ]
The Sculptured Rocks Natural Area is a 272-acre (110 ha) geology-oriented nature preserve in Groton, New Hampshire. The natural area 's main feature is its namesake, the Sculptured Rocks, which are a series of narrow, sharply carved rock formations that are a popular local swimming hole .
Head west from Las Vegas to find cool respite at a spring-fed swimming hole in the stunning Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. An easy 1-mile hike gets you to this natural spring with two ...
The 60-foot natural water slide that gave the area its name ends in a 8-10-foot deep pool of water — which also means that only visitors who can swim are permitted to use the slide.
Devil's Pool as seen from its lookout. Devil's Pool is a natural pool in a treacherous stretch of Babinda Creek where large granite boulders fill the creek bed. It is one of the main attractions of the Babinda Boulders scenic reserve, near Babinda, Queensland, Australia.
The traditional coping on this natural swimming pool demonstrates that natural swimming pools can be designed in many ways and do not always have to resemble natural bodies of water. Ponds or swimming ponds can be constructed by an isolating membrane or membranes or (on an organic model sometimes called natural pools) contained by a layer of loam.
A 1977 Upstate story about local “swimming holes” mentioned Mendon Ponds. “The swimming area…reaches a depth of 15 feet, has a slow-pitched sandy bottom, and a sandy beach for idle sunning ...