After our kayaking trip we walked across the swinging bridge next to the outfitters-the only swinging bridge across the James River. It had there since the 1800s thought it had been washed out and replaced a couple of times. While on the bridge a local woman told us about Roaring Run furnace and falls, about 30 minutes north of Buchanan (pronounced buck cannon) so we headed there. She had told us that there was a place in the River where you could slide down a rock. We think we found the place and I’m sure we would have done the slide if it was warmer (and we were braver).
The hike to the falls was beautiful. The Roaring Run had great little raids the whole way up. On the way back we went by the finance which looked just like the couple of furnaces we have around State College. On the way back through Eagle Rock we stopped at more furnaces but these were limestone furnaces rather than iron ore.