DAY TRIP to Natural Bridge, Virginia. Natural Bridge, in Rockbridge County, Virginia is an arch 215 feet high with a span of 90 feet over a gorge in the mountainous limestone terrain carved out by Cedar Creek (a small tributary of the James River) It consists of horizontal limestone strata and is likely the remains of the roof of a cave through which the creek once flowed. Here’s a photo of the entrance (downstream) side of Natural Bridge.


The upstream side, after passing under the arch.


And here’s the odd thing: Natural Bridge is in fact a bridge as U.S. highway 11 goes over Cedar Creek gorge at Natural Bridge. Here’s a photo – the fence is on both sides of the highway preventing any view of the gorge, and there is no signage to indicate that one is actually on the bridge.


And finally for your amusement, this sign:


Unless I missed something in high-school physics, falling objects always come from above.