June 19, 2010

• Money Rocks Park

  Money Rocks Park, located near the Narvon Clay Mine, spans over 300 acres of woodland in the Welsh Mountains of eastern Lancaster County.
   
  The pride of the park is a rocky spine of boulders called “Money Rocks”, so-named because farmers in the Pequea Valley allegedly hid cash among the rocks.

  The ridge offers beautiful views of farmland, towns, and distant wooded hills.
   
  Cockscomb is another appropriately named outcropping of rocks a bit farther along the ridge. In the winter, the view from this precipice is equal to that of Money Rocks.

  These lines of boulders are spectacular. The rocks are patched with lichens, mosses and ferns. Black birch trees dominate the surrounding woodland with a thick understory of mountain laurel, Pennsylvania’s state flower. Ruffed grouse, the state bird, also lives here.

  The Welsh Mountains harbor the second-most continuous forest left in Lancaster County, superseded only by Furnace Hills. Money Rocks Park preserves a nice part of that forest, which is in various stages of natural plant succession. A network of mining and logging dirt roads makes much of this wooded park accessible to nature lovers.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  There are a few of the pictures that I took
  

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