Where: Whiteoak Canyon/Cedar Run in Shenandoah National Park. Distance from DC:* 96 miles. Length of hike: 8 miles. Difficulty: Strenuous. This loop hike features eight falls—most notably the ...

But it’s a pleasant walk through Patapsco Valley State Park outside Baltimore, passing by verdant trees and through bucolic creeks. Start at the parking lot in the Orange Grove Area, moving on to the ...

Great Falls is celebrating National Recreation and Park Month with its 57 parks, the most of any city in Montana.

Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park is home to one of the country's most spectacular waterfalls — a 260-foot-wide, 77-foot drop that rushes through the Passaic River Gorge and is recognized ...

Virginia Great Falls Park Located about 15 miles from the city, Great Falls Park covers about 800 acres and is best known for the Great Falls of the Potomac, where the river drops over a series of ...

The great room in the model home at Falls Farm, a 30-acre development of custom-build houses on Georgetown Pike in Fairfax County, Va. (Benjamin C Tankersley/For The Washington Post) ...

The Paterson-Great Falls National Historical Park draws over 300,000 visitors a year. Here, Rami Hatqua and Esma Senman of Hawthorne enjoy lunch by the Great Falls.

Construction will start on the next development in the Great Falls national park, a walkway that would let visitors stroll in factory ruins.

At Great Falls, the Potomac River builds up speed and force as it falls over a series of steep, jagged rocks and flows through the narrow Mather Gorge. Great Falls Park has many opportunities to ...