Attack of the falling veils!

I swear to god I was looking up the Bridal Veil Falls and not playing out some sort of childhood wedding fantasy…and I came across the fact that Bridal Veil Falls is a really unoriginal name for waterfalls in America, as there are quite a few. The one I was looking at is in Nantahala National Forest which is not as close to school as I thought it was. So I got distracted and read about all the Bridal Veil Falls in the country…oh, procrastination!

The most famous Bridal Veils are at Niagara Falls. It’s the smallest of the three major falls, but still looks beautiful (never been, but looking at gorgeous pictures). The Cave of the Winds tour (not really a cave) brings you 20 feet away from Bridal Veil Falls. I want to go!!!

There’s the Bridal Veil Falls State Park on the Historic Columbia River Scenic Highway in Oregon. I’ve actually been to the Columbia River Gorge, like when I was 6, my mom took me to visit a college friend of hers. So there are pictures of me in front of some waterfall, but don’t know which one, and neither does my mom.

Utah has it’s own Bridal Veil Falls in Provo Canyon (called bridal veil park).

There are Bridalveil Falls in Yosemite National Park.

I thought maybe I was being really ditzy and that maybe Bridal Veil Falls is like a specific type of falls, I dunno something to do with rock formation or atmospheric something or other. but they’re just pretty falls that look like a veil.

Wikipedia has a huge list. Here is a sampling:

• Bridal Veil Falls, Sabino Canyon Recreation Area, Arizona
• Bridal Veil Falls, Catskill Mountains, New York
• Bridal Veil Falls, DuPont State Forest, North Carolina
• Bridal Veil Falls, Eldorado National Forest, California
• Bridal Veil Falls, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Michigan
• Bridal Veil Falls, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Bridal Veil Falls, Niagara Falls, New York
• Bridal Veil Falls, Bridal Veil Falls State Park, Oregon
• Bridal Veil Falls, Bushkill Falls, Pennsylvania
• Bridal Veil Falls, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
• Bridal Veil Falls, Provo Canyon, Utah
• Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite National Park, California

I dunno. Maybe that’ll be of some use to someone. Ok, gotta do my hoooooooooomeeeeewooooork! Stop distracting me!

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