The "real" Great Falls (VA) doesn't have 80-foot falls but plenty of Class IV-IV waterwater. Woo-hoo!
Sounds like political b.s. to me! Pork, pork, pork..... oink, oink, oink.......
Surely there has to be a limit on what is worth designating as a National Park. A 77 foot waterfall does not strike me as one of nature’s great wonders, though I’m sure it’s scenic in its own way. But there are countless THOUSANDS of scenic spots in the USA and surely we do not need thousands of “national” parks.
Despite living the majority of my life in MA-NY-PA I had never heard of the “Great Falls of Paterson” until this moment. Now that could be some great failing of mine, or it could be, just possibly, that this is not a very significant site on a national scale worthy of a large federal appropriation.
Politicians, especially the Demagogues, are happy to feed like pigs at the federal trough, but this sounds like a real LOSER of a project.
80 foot waterfall? Not very impressive. Sounds like it’d make a nice city park, or even a state park.
But as an unwanted National Park - pure pork.
This is just ridonkulous.
