Falls Cut - Fair Hope PA

     

View of the Tunnel From Below the Tracks

     Growing up in a rural community in the summer there are plenty of things to do outside. One of my past times as a teenager was to go cliff jumping and swimming in the various quarries and lakes. In south-eastern Somerset County Pennsylvania, there is the small town of Fair Hope which is home

to a swimming hole. Fair Hope is mainly known, if at all, by its history of making bricks and being along the Historic B&O railroad. The town has been slowly fading away since the industrial revolution like many others in the rural parts of Pennsylvania.

      Just east of Fair Hope is a Tunnel called Falls Cut. The tunnel leads to a bridge that spans a swimming hole. The swimming hole has a nice formation of cliffs where locals and travelers like myself have gone to jump and swim in the water. Unfortunately when a few friends and I arrived it was like so many swimming holes, lined with graffiti with trash all around. It was fun however to climb the waterfall of rocks below the bridge and watch the trains pass overhead.

     Use extreme caution if you wish to visit this location. I do not recommended swimming or jumping from the cliffs.

Falls Cut Tunnel

Jumping Cliffs

Swimming Hole