点评:Reviewers mention taking the fire road. We saw no such thing. We almost missed the parking area for the trail as it is marked only by a tiny little sign. We knew it was at mile 49.4 so we passed it once and then did a u-turn. Parking at the overlook as several reviewers mentioned, might be a better thing to do. This was not a paved parking lot, just cars parked under the trees. Once you park there is no sign telling you where to go to find the trailhead. We followed another person across the street to the trail.
From the park website, we printed descriptions of all the trails. This site told us this trail would take 4-5 hours to hike. We were done in 2. After crossing the road, we took the trail which descended rather than taking the one that went left. We knew it was a loop. After about 20 minutes or so, we encountered a beautiful waterfall. Since the website told us the hike would take 4-5 hours, we thought it strange to encounter the waterfall almost immediately. Another hiker told us this was the Dark Hollow Falls, which was spectacular. We took the little path to the top of it, then descended back to our trail. Maybe we missed the Rose River Falls which were described on line as dazzling. The falls we saw after Dark Hollow were pretty, but definitely not as nice as Dark Hollow. The trail was beautiful, but maybe we missed a turn somewhere because the falls we saw were not dazzling at all. We found hiking in this park frustrating as we didn't have any trail maps and the trails are not well labeled at the trail heads. There should have been a map showing us where we were going and that we would cross the Dark Hollow Falls Trail.
翻译:评论里提到要走防火道,但我们没看到。我们差点错过了步道的停车场,因为它只有一个很小的指示牌。我们知道它在49.4英里处,所以经过一次后就掉头了。正如一些评论里提到的,把车停在观景台可能更好。那里不是铺好的停车场,只是车停在树下。停车后,没有任何指示牌告诉你步道起点在哪里。我们跟着另一个人穿过马路才找到步道。
我们从公园网站上打印了所有步道的介绍。网站上说这条步道需要4-5个小时才能走完,但我们只用了2个小时就走完了。过马路后,我们选择了下坡的那条步道,而不是走左边的那条。我们知道这是一条环线。大约20分钟后,我们看到了一个美丽的瀑布。因为网站上说这条步道需要4-5个小时,所以我们觉得几乎立刻就看到瀑布有点奇怪。另一位徒步者告诉我们,这里是黑谷瀑布(Dark Hollow Falls),景色非常壮观。我们沿着小路爬到瀑布顶端,然后返回到原来的步道。也许我们错过了网上描述为令人惊艳的玫瑰河瀑布(Rose River Falls)。我们在黑谷瀑布之后看到的瀑布也很漂亮,但肯定不如黑谷瀑布壮观。步道风景优美,但也许我们走错了路,因为我们看到的瀑布一点也不惊艳。在这个公园徒步让我们感到很沮丧,因为我们没有带地图,而且步道入口处的标识也不清晰。应该有一张地图,标明我们要去哪里,以及我们会经过黑谷瀑布步道。