Roaring Fork may seem like a misnomer for this mountain stream in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. During dry spells, it"s a gentle brook. But Roaring Fork descends 2,500 feet over just 2 miles—a steep drop down Mount Le Conte. When heavy rains swell the stream, Roaring Fork transforms into a whitewater rush, with the sound of the surging water echoing off the sandstone walls of the mountain.
Loud waters
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Brown bears in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska
-
The citadel in Bonifacio, Southern Corsica, France
-
Here we mark the price of freedom
-
Have a ‘beary’ good Earth Day
-
Waiānapanapa State Park, Maui, Hawaii
-
It s National Hispanic Heritage Month
-
International Day for Monuments and Sites
-
Castle ruins on the island of Halki, Greece
-
It s not always sunny in Abu Simbel…
-
Gone ‘lightseeing’ in Berlin
-
Pascua Florida Day
-
Land ho in New Zealand 250 years ago
-
Looking back at Yellowstone, 30 years after the fires
-
It s a ruff life
-
Women s suffrage at 100
-
Scottish Blackface sheep, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
-
Rays on parade
-
American bison
-
A state-of-the-art lookout on the Rock of Gibraltar
-
The scene of a literary crime
-
Illuminating Annecy
-
Swimming with the sea cows
-
A delta in the Venetian Lagoon, Italy
-
Hang Sơn Đoòng Cave, Vietnam
-
Eye of the cave
-
Celebrating migrations
-
Rapa Valley in Sarek National Park, Sweden
-
Where fire meets water
-
International Museum Day
-
Blue-footed booby, Galápagos Islands
Bing Wallpaper Gallery

