I learned about this place on a show on the Travel Channel called Weird Travels and decided I had to go there. We drove two and a half hours to the Doylestown/ Bethlehem area of Pennsylvania above Philadelphia. The park is located in a beautiful wooded area. As you walk from the parking lot into the woods you notice that the ground is strewn with more and more rocks. The forest trail abruptly ends to reveal a large open field of boulders. The field is 5 acres big and 10 feet deep. It is a mystery how all these rocks ended up here. Furthermore, the rocks have unusual qualities. They ring, make music. Some have high pitch and others lower and then some just go "thunk". It is easy to determine which stones have a good pitch by their worn white marks from years and years of being hit with hammers by visitors. There is an eerie atmosphere as you clamber out over the rocks early in the morning, but as the park fills with visitors armed with hammers, all pounding on the rocks, the place becomes quite musical and entertaining.
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You can see that many of these boulders are very large.
A view of the field of rocks
This rock has a very good tone, visitors have worn a hole in the rock.
Another view of the rock field. It is said that a bird has never been seen flying over this area.
Interesting erosion patterns on the rocks
George "ringing" the stones.
A short walk past the rock field takes you through the forest to another interesting geological formation. There is a wide rock stepped platform that drops off to create a waterfall three stories high.
If this picture seems tilted it is because the rock floor does actually pitch to the right.
The rock floor is stepped down gradually toward the waterfall
View from the top of the waterfall.
If this picture seems tilted it is because the rock floor does actually pitch to the right.
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