Friend of Stateparks Photo Gallery
Photographer: Joseph Herring
Vista unnamed
This is one of the first vistas you will come to if you enter the state park by the north entrance.
Looking down from Fire Tower
Here's advice if you want to climb the sixty-foot firetower -
don't look down when you're near the top
Hesitation Point
This may be the most spectacular vista in the park.
Cascading Stream
This small and pretty cascade is found on a creek above Hoffman Falls.
Hiker at the mouth of the Tunnel
The old railroad tunnel is a
weird place. Springs in the walls create flowstone cave formations, and bats sleep in crannies in the ceiling.
Tunnel Falls
One of the tallest waterfalls in the park, Tunnel Falls has a drop of around 80 feet.
Rapids on Clifty Creek
Indiana Looks more like a scene from the Smokies
Limestone boulder on Trail 1
Trail 1 is a lovely trail in the morning.
View south from High Bridge
High Bridge is well-named. Spanning a gaping chasm carved by Little Crooked Creek, it has stunning views from both its sides. To the south, the hills of Kentucky are visible. High Bridge is located near the park's southern boundary.
Ohio River Overlook
This magnificent panorama unfolds when you pass around the back of Clifty Inn.
Rocky Wonderland
I discovered this amazing jumble of huge boulders somewhere on the upper reaches of Clifty Creek.
Cascade above Little Clifty Falls
This beautiful cascade lies at your left when you cross the bridge spanning Little Clifty Creek, on trail 7. At your right, the creek spills into a deep hollow as Little Clifty Falls.
Looking up at Cake Rock
Cake Rock is a massive limestone slump block which towers above trail 7.
Hidden Falls
The cascade shown is just the bottom of a tremendously high waterfall. This falls is one of many spectacular, yet hidden waterfalls that exist in Clifty Falls state park. This particular waterfall is only barely accessible, and the dangerous creek bed hike to it is not at all recommended.
Secret cascade
This picturesque, unnamed cascade is hidden amid boulders on a hillside.
McCormicks Creek Falls
The waterfall is 8 or 9 feet high.
McCormicks Creek
The Creek falls are visible in the center of the photo, and the falls viewing platform is in the upper right corner.
View of the Creek.
The creek bed section of trail 3 is mostly a scramble over rocks and boulders. If you like this sort of trail, you should probably also check out Clifty Falls, Turkey Run, Shades and/or Falls of the Ohio state parks.
McCormicks Creek cascade
McCormicks Creek is probably the most enchanting Indiana stream I've ever seen. I don't have any photos that do it justice.
Wolf Cave
A bad photo of one entrance to Wolf Cave. Wolf cave is a true cave and is worth exploring.
People and the Falls
The McCormicks Creek Falls is 8 or 9 feet high. It's great fun to stand under it and let the water crash down heavily over your shoulders.
Trail 3 on a rainy morning
A view of tall rock bluffs from the creek bed.
Pearl Ravine
Trail 2 winds along the bottom of Pearl Ravine and is very rugged.
Maidenhair Falls
An interesting waterfall in a pristine setting, it is located on trail 2.
Canyon Floor
On the canyon section of trail 2, you hike along boulders and past cliffs completely carpeted with moss.
Inspiration Point
Located on trail 1, the Point affords a a view of Sugar Creek and Canoe Island far below.
Morning in the canyon
The canyons of Turkey Run are dark, damp and beautiful in the morning.
Sugar Creek
View of Sugar Creek from the suspension bridge.
View near Overlook Restaurant
The visitor to Harrison-Crawford state forestor O'Bannon Woods State Park absolutely must check out this amazing view of the Ohio River in nearby Leavenworth.
Creek bluffs, Cliff Dweller Trail
These cliffs deep in the state forest once provided flint for ancient Native Americans. The pieces of flint were made into arrowheads, spearheads and knives.
