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Sliding Rock is a waterfall in Western North Carolina, located near Brevard, so named because visitors can slide all the way down the waterfall into the plunge pool below. The plunge pool is around 8 feet deep in the middle, with a strong churning river current, so users must be able to swim or wear a life vest.
Sailing stones (also called sliding rocks, walking rocks, rolling stones, and moving rocks) are part of the geological phenomenon in which rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without animal intervention. The movement of the rocks occurs when large, thin sheets of ice floating on an ephemeral winter pond move and ...
Slide Rock State Park is located on Coconino National Forest land and is co-managed by the Arizona State Parks agency and the United States Forest Service. Tall red rock formations that are typical of the region also surround the park, which contains a 43-acre (17 ha) working apple farm.
Smart vacationers may want to avoid the national parks they've seen already or that get crowded and instead look to the impressive state parks that may be just a short drive away.
Sliding Rock – 18 m (59 ft) slide used as a natural water slide, near Brevard in Transylvania County; Tory's Falls – 30.5 m (100 ft) Triple Falls – 38 m (125 ft) drop in three steps; Upper Whitewater Falls – 126 m (413 ft) cascade
It is home to Leala Shoreline National Natural Landmark and Leala Sliding Rock. [2] Leala Sliding Rock is a natural rock formation between Vailoatai and Taputimu, which is a scenic landmark as well as a natural playground or slide. It was created by the ebb and flow of the ocean; the erosion has created a smooth shoreline site.
A swimmer, lower right, is seen at one of the “rock slides” of Lake Creek Falls Recreation Site in Oregon. Oregon tight end and Sacramento native Spencer Webb died in an apparent cliff diving ...
Rockslide at Oddicombe Beach in Devon, UK Rockslides in Nigeria Landslips. A rockslide is a type of landslide caused by rock failure in which part of the bedding plane of failure passes through compacted rock and material collapses en masse and not in individual blocks.