Friday, February 8, 2013

Waterfalls of McConnell's Mill

McConnell's Mill has a bunch of waterfalls.  We have not even seen them all yet.  Many of the falls dry up by early summer.

The first waterfall is Alpha falls.  We park in the first parking lot and head back up the road a little bit and you will see a trail sign.  Follow it down the trail/hill.  There are some stairs.  The falls are to the left.  You may have to climb up off the trail to get a good look.


After you are done with Alpha falls head back to the trail and head towards the mill.

The mill has a dam area that has a man made waterfall.


To get to to Kildoo falls keep walking past the mill and the covered bridge to stay on trail.  When you get to a small bridge you can look up and see Kildoo falls.  We usually go off the bridge and climb around.  Kildoo falls is several different levels with the main part at the top.

Also in McConnell's mill is Breakneck falls.  We drove to small parking area and the rest of the road was blocked.  We ended up right above breakneck falls.  It is way to dangerous to hike down that way.  So we walked down the road and made a left and followed the water.  There wasn't much of a path.  Then when we go to the falls area we started rock hoping up.  Our camera battery died after all of that !  So we have a couple of phone photos.  THis was before iphones and good camera phones.


Hells Hollow hike also has a waterfall at the end of it.  It is a short easy hike and you pass a limekin on the way.



Other falls are that we haven't seen yet in McConnell's mill are:
Walnut falls
Eckert falls

1 comment:

  1. Great photos! I've only seen hells hollow, alpha, mill falls (or whatever you call the man made one), and kildoo falls.
    This person has several other ones:
    http://www.flickr.com/groups/mcconnellsmill/pool/40787387@N00/?view=md

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