An Amazing Place ~ Natural Bridge State Park, VA

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[@thomascope6482]

Just love going hiking with you every couple days keep up the good work

[@rileyreagan1]

The sound of the stream is soooo peaceful. Beautiful place Cliff. In this chaotic world, your videos bring calm. Thank you for that😊

[@hiworldstephensonultranate290]

hi Yeh BigFan

[@karenpacker8862]

Gorgeous waterfalls stream and Natural Bridge! Really is an incredible place!!!

[@lynnlopez3274]

Cliff, I hope you know what a gift it is to watch these amazing places from my couch. This was stunning.

[@andrewbrown8216]

That was on of the best vids that you have done!😁😉😎👍

[@chelseydeetta2847]

l What a georgous park that is just awsome. I just can't believe it. God has sure made beautiful things for all of us to enjoy. Great find

[@martyjones9374]

Cliff this was Amazing & Beautiful!! That tree & the Arch was just stunning & magnificent. I have never seen anything like it. So thankful for your videos that I get to see places I may never get a chance to go. Just beauty wherever you take us. Sorry about the Otters. Just loving your Virginia trip!! 😍

[@JamesScott-lc8md]

Out of all your uploads I have watched, like this one BEST. Very nice place and thx. For Sharing

[@aevalk8369]

It's so beautiful with so much to see, it'd be great to spend a few days in the area. That way one could linger at favorite spots and really immerse yourself in the amazing surroundings. It would definitely be worth the money.

[@MillerMeteor74]

This brings back so many memories! This place was always a stop on our southern road trip every summer. Other stops were Luray Caverns and the Biltmore House. We used to drive Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway too. Our last visit was in 1980, I'm pretty sure, and we walked that trail and saw the arbor vitae tree. It was still alive at the time. We also saw George Washington's initials way up high on the arch.

[@LilyWhisperwind]

What an amazing place! The tree, and archway in the beginning are so beautiful.

[@rs2143]

There is a highway on the top of the arch route 11 called the Lee highway. And Thomas Jefferson once owned it and George Washington servaded it and his initials are carved in the wall on the other side of the water . I was there about 15 years ago very nice place to visit. Ps when we where there there was a snake on the wall at the falls at the end of the video same as you seen.

[@jayforkner2692]

George Washington surveyed it. Thomas Jefferson owned it and actually personally surveyed it while he was president.

[@rs2143]

@@jayforkner2692 Thanks for the Thomas Jefferson info but GW is carved in the wall by George Washington

[@jwsibelievehikeandfly2272]

Thanks 4 info if i ever go will check this out

[@kathyphilmurphy5517]

What a beautiful awesome place! Yes, 8 dollars is a price I would pay for a good smooth surface to walk on. The otters would have been nice, but the snakes definitely were happy to be photographed. Thanks for this beautiful adventure!

[@user-David-Alan]

That was amazing! I could imagine native Americans living along that stream many years ago. Thanks for sharing.

[@danborick7384]

You all need to come back after the COVID pandemic. The Monocan Tribe does a wonderful job of sharing their tribe's history and gives a great insight into woodland native tribes of the area. They make it extra special. One of our favorite things about the park. Oh the Natural Bridge Caverns are very nearby and are really neat too.

[@LilyWhisperwind]

My son says a good camping tip, is to take used, washed cans to cook with. you can keep eggs out for a few days, and just scramble them with a metal skewer, and add them to corned beef hash. Now I want to go camping too. Love your videos!

[@mikesweeney7190]

Stayed there back in 1976...Hey I'm old..After a concert called stomping 76 in Galax.Va. A little hazy..but had a great time......

[@michellebehr7669]

Nature's abounding beauty spoke in this video! Around every corner was a new surprise waiting!

[@justhello1]

As a child, my parents took us here to see this amazingly beautiful phenomenon. Thanks so much for taking us along on your adventures. Appreciate and love watching yor channel.

[@Jeto704]

Cool place. Nice to see it as a State Park. It was still privately owned the last time i visited.

[@garyjohnson4608]

What a beautiful wondrous place!!

[@angiewanders7272]

Such a beautiful park. Virginia has such beautiful parks and history.

[@FreeRoamBaltimore]

If only you could camp in the village. That's how bad I want to visit this place. It's so amazing!

[@lindamccaughey6669]

Wow Cliff that just went up to my no. One favourite video. It was incredible amazing, what more could you ask for. Water, waterfalls gorgeous arch and two beautiful snakes. Oh I truly loved that. Will be watched again. Thanks so much for taking me along. Please take care

[@maljcross4634]

Perfect day, perfect sights, perfect video....can't say much more.

[@allygee5468]

Wow what an awesome place so very beautiful

[@monikameza4107]

What a beautiful place. ❤

[@elizabethrowe7262]

Fantastic place to visit Cliff. Lots of things to see and take in while walking under shade, so lovely. Never seen a 1600 year old tree, how wonderful to see it still growing. Snakes looked as though they were waiting for lunch and having a nice sun bake.

[@andreascott5815]

Thank you. Wow! Such an awesome place!

[@georgetrains6168]

What a amazing place to take in

[@charliejg]

While it's not a trail, heading north on 81 is Luray Caverns. It's quite an amazing tour. I lived in Winchester, VA for a while and that was a highlight. Natural Bridge is beautiful. I really need to get to Virginia and spend some time there again.

[@its4electric]

Yeah that is a cool place I went there last year you really don't realize how big that Arch is until you down there with it

[@carolb29]

wow! what an amazing place! thanks so much for sharing

[@giniwalters8401]

Wonderful video Cliff!!! Awesome Arch, it's so amazing!!! Beautiful falls with the peaceful and relaxing sounds of the water!!! Listening to the water it'll take all your troubles away down stream!!! Thank you Cliff for sharing this beautiful place!!!

[@debbieblaylock9997]

Wow that place is so beautiful and amazing thanks Cliff for sharing

[@christinamoore6361]

Wonderful waterfalls and beautiful archway.

[@spicencens7725]

Cliff, you have outdone yourself! This is the most spectacular, gorgeous, back-to-nature video you've done yet! Absolutely beautiful! What a great place to contemplate those who came before!! Children sliding down the rocks, trying to catch fish, while moms and maidens washed clothes. Trudging through the forest to home, seeing what tonight's fresh catch dinner would be! Trout or rabbit, deer? This reminds me so much of Tonto Nat'l Bridge in AZ. A large travertine bridge that you could hike down. Holding onto steel cables, watching your footing. At the bottom your reward was a cool 60° breeze, respit from 95°+ above. Laying on the boulders under the bridge while welcome droplets of water seep through the limestone shower you with what felt like ice water! The walk out was along the creek where maidenhair ferns abound. 💖 That was 30 years ago. I understand it's been more tourist driven, safe, and not near as adventurous as it was! I don't think you can climb the rocks below now. Sorry to go on! Thanks for the great trip!!!

[@oscarcarrillo7859]

That a beautiful place!!!! Awesome views. Thanks for sharing man.Stay safe.

[@joseleswopes1400]

That was Beautiful 🥰 Otters are fun to watch, they love water slides. They also will swim on their backs while eating fish and cracking open shell fish. They are known to crack them open on rocks on their stomachs.🥰

[@robadventures9222]

Great video I liked this hike it’s was very relaxing 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@edithdavis2848]

Love that arch. Saltpeter would be a bat cave, use saltpeter to make gun powder. That whole place is awesome, to bad the college was closed.. Thank you for sharing another amazing place I never would have seen if not for you. Very loud Phoebe bird.

[@janetrichey8734]

My parents honeymooned there in 1955, then my husband and I in 1995, and then attended Easter sunrise services in 1997. Your video brought back some wonderful memories, and much to my delight, the place has not changed much. Thanks for walking us through!

[@sonnytaylor3003]

My kind of place to visit.

[@suzanjournagan1112]

Very interestingly beautiful. Thank you so much for takeing us along, amazing. I'm sure this would be the only way I would have been able to visit this site. 👍💚🤩

[@annwhite1784]

I visited years ago, thanks for taking me back! Its beautiful there!

[@SueGirling68]

Hi Cliff, wow that bridge was absolutely stunning, imagine how many millions of years it took for it to be formed to what you see in the present day, astounding. A real shame you didn't see any otters, they really are lovely playful little things. Thank you for sharing. xx

[@susanorr7535]

So Fantastic, amazing arches

[@raynonabohrer5624]

This is beautiful

[@jeniw8586]

Beautiful park Cliff. Nice hike under the bridge.

[@darlenegood4101]

beautiful place...thanks for taping your hike in Virginia

[@cathymolina9139]

Wonderful video! Thank you for sharing. Really enjoyed it.

[@rogercarroll2551]

My family's property once adjoined the Natural Bridge lands. This was such a part of my childhood. (US Rt. 11 crosses the Natural Bridge).

[@mdtreasurehuntervalley9689]

Hey Cliff, when you were videoing the inside of the arch I was looking for George Washington carvings, I saw the GW when I was there some years ago, great video.

[@1967BlackRose]

Another awesome explore, thanks Cliff. I could grab a seat along the way and just listen to the sounds (and watch for otters) for hours. So many great 'tidbits'. All this for $8 wowza

[@foggybrain7431]

This was awesome! This place is so beautiful! Thank for for taking us on this and all your journey's. Thanks to you, im adding new places to my bucket lists.

[@lua.1412]

An Amazing Place. Thank you very much.

[@dscobellusa]

Wow it is beautiful ❤️

[@jenniferbutcher8393]

Oh wow! Never heard of this place before. It's really quite spectacular! And the waterfall was beautiful too. We have otters in Ohio....I've seen them playing by the stream in northern Ohio...couldn't believe my eyes! Thank you as always for take us there!😊

[@lindsaymacpherson8782]

Wow amazing video really enjoyed this Thankyou very much stunning

[@lisasmith7854]

Thank you for sharing, some of my ancestors derive from Virginia and I can see why they settled in Minnesota after they left Virginia due to the civil war,. Confederate Marauders hung my grandfather and his sons left Virginia and fought for the Union, in the civil war and apparently they did find the men that did this to their father ( my grandfather)and they didn't live very long they found them and the rest is history

[@ericbentz4597]

Beautiful place, wife and I spent part of our honeymoon there back in 1997. Still remember the place where George Washington etched his initials.

[@wvwildlifecam9159]

30 years ago on a school field trip there. They had some good size fish in that creek probably trout. Too bad the old wax museum has since closed.

[@trackeryak]

Just amazing scenery. Thank you.

[@cristelarodriguez2707]

Be careful with the snakes .... nice walk, I so much enjoy it with you ..

[@carmengarner4781]

Thank you Cliff for sharing places that I won't get to travel to. This place is just amazing and beautiful! Lol makes me want to slide down the smaller falls.

[@steel5886]

Cliff, incredible natural rock formations .I seen a natural bridge in Aruba on vacation.

[@jwsibelievehikeandfly2272]

Walked over a natural bridge in Aruba, but it was no where near the size of this one, this one is just insane. Thanks for sharing!!!!!

[@tyesoutherland4618]

Bravo cliff and many thumbs up on another awesome video.i would love to add this adventure to my ' bucket list ".

[@lindacostello159]

Beautiful!!! Adding this to my bucket list!!!

[@jackielatham4831]

Brilliant Cliff Wonderful rock bridge Hope you get to see an otter one day, so cheeky they are xx

[@nickmad887]

Nice place Cliff.

[@Elyyfz450]

Great video, thanks for sharing

[@stevethomas5509]

nice one................

[@carlavision6143]

Cliff, thank you for taking me along with you to places I'll never get to see! 1996 was the last year I got to see a national park. Which was Yellowstone and Mount Rushmore which was totally awesome and Hoover Dam for the 2nd time. My niece Chantel and I got to go on vacation with my mom and stepdad Jim and that's where we went. What absolutely beautiful and stunning park and Arch! Really enjoyed your awesome and cool video! It was very interesting and beautiful!

[@hiworldstephensonultranate290]

Wow Big Thanks To The Creator for this like a Gorge or Aqueduct i once saw in Europe saw otter once this is why i watch regularly i personally Don't wan to be n 10/15 millions cities anymore I am on the Road Less Travelled Blessings for me tonight with this tks

[@sandylipscomb7003]

MY HUSBAND AND I WORKED THERE FOR TWO SUMMERS WHEN WE WERE IN COLLEGE‼️AWESOME EXPERIENCE 😎

[@normroberts3468]

Great place I was there

[@pamelaattrux336]

Wow I said wow then you said wow I just love this place thanks so much for showing us this place I live trees down this was interesting

[@debsmith9819]

It's a wonderful place!!!!

[@chrisgray8774]

Natural Bridge blows away Arches National Monument in Utah. Different geology though. A sandstone arch the size of Natural Bridge would have probably collapsed under its own weight. No beautiful flowing streams at Arches either. You picked a good spot. Great video.

[@teresahill14]

Beautiful place! I will be visiting soon.

[@emeraldsoundproductions]

That is an awesome park. I will have to go and check it out for myself sometime. Thanks for sharing. - Randy

[@lovesmashbox]

What a beautiful area . I have a suggestion for you . Since you take photos of your travels why don't you do a book of them ?

[@thewanderingwoodsman7227]

If a publisher approached me, I would.

[@billstill1794]

I was there in the late 60's with my mom, it still looks the same but was happy to see it again so thanks! By the way I used to see a mother otter and her 2 juveniles playing in a small stream/swimming hole near the Susquehanna river just south of Harrisburg in the mid 90's.

[@sandylipscomb7003]

You willlove it‼️‼️‼️

[@bobsretroelectronicswork-bn4qc]

Two things you missed! 1. Standing under the center of the arch, look across the creek about 20’ high you would see a small white rectangle painted on the far wall. It surrounds the initials “G. W.”!!! Yes ,the area was surveyed by George Washington in 1750 and sold to Thomas Jefferson! 2. The fence you see along the top is actually rt. 11 going over the top!

[@OlWolf1011]

Been there awhile ago. Smiled when you got to the first waterfall - and then the arbor vitae (white cedar) - old friends, like you say. Was holding my breath to hear what you said when you finally SAW it! I keep telling folks "You may have seen pictures - but I tell you - the photos DON'T do it justice! You hafta SEE it!" 😵 Yeah, it looks like an arch - but the Bridge is overhead - like you going through an underpass - but Nature and the Higher Power CUT this thing! When I went, I just HAD TO lean with my hands touching the wall to your right, and close my eyes for a moment... you can FEEL the History, the Eons - through the rock. Did you see George Washington's date-mark on the upper wall near the exit of the Bridge? He found that when on a surveyors' trip out west - lest it was back then. And Thomas Jefferson bought it to preserve it from anyone planting a homestead up there and ruining it. Now it's a park! I visited the Monacan village when they were just finishing building it. The People created this, do exhibits, and maintain it. Good folks! An hour northeast of leaving NB, you can hike Crabtree Falls. Tallest waterfall in VA!

[@Redgonetogray]

Amazing place !

[@TairaEldritch]

I've been to the Natural Bridge State Park in Kentucky, you could actually walk across the rock formation! The entire place looks sooo similar to the one ion Kentucky I was actually confused about which was which..

[@francene8950]

Love that place, it's still as beautiful as I remember it! Thank you for the great video. That's real close to where my family is from, love to go back there to live, but unfortunately them day's are not the same!

[@robertvirtue8070]

Lexington just north of there has a walking tour of the town, Includes VMI , Washington and Lee College, Robert E. Lee crypt is in the College Chaple. Stone Jackson home, and grave in the cemeetaey in town/

[@Julia-zl2tu]

You beat me to this park and i'm only an hour away. I look forward to visiting there. Thanks for the great video.

[@tommyo7463]

Been on that trail..Saw about 5 big snake's...Had to gooooo.

[@PenntuckytheCrag]

ive made it there once. quite amazing

[@lisasmith7854]

I do want to someday take a trip out there I guess where my family is from there is still their family cemetery

[@ronsmith1364]

a Hole through a mountain, only one on the east coast.

[@LemonExtras]

Reminds me of Watkins Glen in a way

[@johnirby493]

The cave was a saltpeter mine.

[@pickinduck]

You like water falls. I would always be wondering how polluted and safe the water is.

[@johnirby493]

On top is U.S. Hwy 11.

[@peterheisey6464]

Funny about otters but I remember seeing two in Lebanon County in the 1980s, I don't remember seeing them since.