Rafters make their way through the Breaks Gorge

 

All the rivers in Dickenson County, Virginia drains out via the Russell Fork of the Big Sandy River,

which runs through the Breaks Gorge. The river drops in elevation about 350 feet in a series of low

falls, rapids, riffles and pools as it grinds its way through the five-mile-long gorge. For tens of millions

of years the Russell Fork has been cutting, grinding and washing away the solid rock floor of the Breaks gorge, which has been cut deeper and deeper into Pine Mountain. The down-cutting of the stream through the resistant sandstones and conglomerates has produced the palisade-like walls that

characterize this part of the valley of Russell Fork.

 

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This page updated September 18, 2004

 

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