First of all, Cypress Falls Park is enormous. When we finally came out of the park, we were confused about where we were. We assumed that we were at the other end of the park, but really we were only half way there. That's why there will be no review of Cypress Trails Park at this point in time.
But the half of the park we did see was very nice. Most of it looks like this:
The whole park is a network of trails. We saw a lot of dogs while were walking through the park. They all looked very happy, but their owners weren't quite so ecstatic. The trails are all muddy, and the dogs were having fun. Whether you have a dog or not, that's something to keep in mind. If it has rained at all recently, don't go to Cypress Falls in your sneakers. A pair of watertight boots is a must. Particularly near the main entrance, the mud can be deep and impossible to avoid.
The trails are really great, but the highlight of this park is, of course, the waterfall:
That's pretty damn impressive. It kind of makes the waterfall in Westridge Park seem like not a waterfall at all. This is a serious bottle neck canyon really tall splash fest. There's even rainbows in the mist! My camera couldn't see them, though. If you want to see them, you're just going to have to go there yourself.
Now for a shot taken from the exact same spot as the last one!
Cypress Falls Park contains this brontosaurus tree that I would absolutely never want to sit on, except I totally do want to sit on it. Can you imagine the view looking down suspended over top on that canyon? But that moss would be so slippery that you would definitely die. There's moss all over everything in this park, actually. It's really pretty, but Nina pointed out that it's basically a flesh eating disease for trees. I sure hope that trees have no pain receptors.
The climb back up from the waterfall was brutal. The whole park is basically just a giant ravine. The uphill just kept on going up. I tried to take a picture, but my camera (I should really name this camera... how about Igor?) couldn't capture how steep the slope was. Igor tends to have trouble understanding concepts such as light and depth perception, but I still love him.
It only occurred to me after I'd left the park that it's called Cypress Falls Park. Falls is plural, and we only saw half of the park! I bet there's another waterfall somewhere in the other half! If that's not a reason to return to a park, then I don't know what is.
PPR
Good: trails, waterfall, tennis court, field, apparently there's a playground somewhere in the unexplored half, will take near forever to finish exploring
Bad: too big (not all bad), crazy-steep hills, it's always dark in there
8/10
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