The Eastern States Waterfall Guide

You may be saying to yourself, "Man, ResearchBuzz has had some offbeat entries lately." That's because I have a huge list of pending sites -- sites I see or hear about and drop into a text file to look at later. Sometimes due to search engine updates and other timely news, those sites get pushed down the list. The last couple of weeks have been on the quiet side so I've been able to go down the list and cover some of the sites that have been on my list to look at for a while.

In that spirit I bring you the Eastern States Waterfall Guide, a listing of over 150 waterfalls in the easternUS. ( http://www.aria-database.com/w aterfall/ ) The listing is searchable. You can either use a simple search form (looks just like a keywords box) or a more advanced form that covers waterfall name, location, stream name, height (above or below x feet), and state. Further, you can limit your search to just recommended falls or just falls with photographs. You can use just parts of that form; it's easy to, say, search for all the waterfalls in New York.

Search results give you the name of the falls, location, ratings (on power, beauty, and ease of access), height, and river. Recommended waterfalls are denoted with a smiley face. Only the waterfalls which the maintainer has personally visited are listed on the results page; there is a separate page with other waterfalls that the maintainer has not visited. The maintainer does seem to get around, though -- there are ten waterfalls listed on the North Carolina page and 43 on Pennsylvania's.

Clicking on the fall's name gives you a page of information about the area, including links to photographs, safety considerations, rules and fees, descriptions, and driving directions.

This site also includes hints and tips for visiting waterfalls, photographing waterfalls, classifications of waterfalls (do you know the difference between a talus and a scree? You DON'T?) a "Falls of the Month" feature, and a link list (there's a "Waterfalls of Southern Ontario" site! And "Waterfalls of Hong Kong!")

Beautiful photography here. Worth a look.

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