Yesterday I discovered a hiking trail just a couple miles north on Highway 1 (Bel Air Road). The Gunpowder Falls rises in the hills along the Pennsylvania line and meanders southeastward through beautiful upper Baltimore county before tumbling over the fall line to the tidal Gunpowder River in Eastern Baltimore county. This river is contained by two reservoirs along its path to tidewater, because the stream provides most of metropolitan Baltimore's water supply. Water levels are typically low on this stretch due to the impoundment at Loch Raven (see next post) to supply city water.
There are no true waterfalls along the river. The "falls" is a local term used to name streams that cascade down ledges on their way to flat water.
