Banging on rocks at Ringing Rocks County Park, Upper Black Eddy, PA
About one-third of the rocks in Ringing Rocks Park will ring when hit
The Ringing Rocks, Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania (2019)
Mineralized rocks that bear a ringing sound when struck with another hard object. This was an oddity that we wanted to check out for ourselves. It took us 6 hrs to get there, but I'd do it again.
Rocks That Sound Like Bells | Ringing Rocks Park: Upper Black Eddy, PA
The family and I visit Ringing Rocks Park to hear the bells ring. We hit some rocks with hammers, hike through the woods, see the coolest waterfall with very little water, and get way to close to a wasp nest.
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Ringing Rocks County Park in Upper Black Eddy, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Ringing Rocks County Park in Upper Black Eddy, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The rocks ring metallic sound when struck with a hard object.
Ringing Rocks Park Bucks County PA
Ringing Rocks County Park
Ringing Rocks County Park is a Bucks County park in Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania at 40.56316°N 75.12689°W.[1] Originally, the land was acquired by the Penn family from the Lenape (Delaware Nation) through the infamous 1737 Walking Purchase. It is not clear who made the original land warrant for the area now covered by the Ringing Rocks County Park. On the 1850 property map of Bucks County, the owner appears to be Tunis Lippincott; however, there is no warrantee listing under that name. The earliest published description of the Bridgeton boulder field is found in Davis 1876. The seven-acre boulder field was purchased in 1895 by Abel B. Haring, president of the Union National Bank in Frenchtown, NJ. Apparently Haring wished to protect the ringing rocks from development, and even refused an offer from a manufacturer of Belgian blocks for the right to quarry the stones. (Humphreys 1905, Sigafoos 1935). On August 22, 1918, the land which contains the Bridgeton boulder field was donated by Haring to the Bucks County Historical Society. The grant included 7 acres 8.08 perches of land. A right-of-way was granted by John O. McEntee for access to the park (Fackenthal 1919). Later the land was transferred to Bucks County and operated as a county park. Additional land acquisitions have increased the size of the park to 128 acres.
Ott procured the musical rocks from a nearby boulder field in Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania. Known today as Ringing Rocks Park, the rock field occupies 7 acres of an otherwise wooded area, and is over 10 feet deep with boulders.
Only about a third of the rocks ring, and for a long time why the rocks rang at all was unclear. However, in 1965 a group of scientists crushed, broke, and sliced the rocks. After performing numerous tests, they found that while all the rocks do in fact ring, they often do so at tones lower than the human ear can perceive. Interactions between these low tones create any audible sounds. However, the exact mechanism by which they ring still remains elusive, and it may have to do with the freeze-thaw cycle that helped created the boulder field in the first place.
Though many are tempted to illegally pocket a ringing rock for later use, it is futile, as the rocks lose their musical ability once taken away from the other stones. Other areas in Eastern Pennsylvania are Stony Garden in Bucks County, Ringing Rocks Park near Pottstown, Montgomery County and the Devil’s Race Course in Franklin County.
Ringing Rocks Park, Bucks county, PA
Ringing Rocks County Park in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Hidden away in Bucks County, Pennsylvania is one of the most unusual boulder fields in the world: the Ringing Rocks.
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Our trip to Ringing Rocks Park. We show you that the rocks actually ring when struck with a hammer and that there is much more to Ringing Rocks park than...ringing rocks
Intro song: Artist: Bird Creek / title: Climbing
Speeding up music: Artist: Jingle Punks / title: Voyeur
Ringing Rocks Park in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Video of a visit to Ringing Rocks Park near Upper Black Eddy in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
One of the most unique natural formations in America. To this day, scientists are stumped as to why these rocks create such bell-like tones.
Ringing Rocks Falls, Upper Black Eddy, Bucks County, PA
Ringing Rocks Park, Upper Black Eddy, PA
The Sonorous Rocks of Ringing Rocks County Park
Located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Ringing Rocks County Park contains an interesting phenomenon: rocks that ring! Found in only a handful of locations around the world, these naturally occurring sonorous rocks are interesting and certainly worth checking out if you are nearby. Of course, don't forget to bring your hammer!
Ringing Rocks Park in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Curtis Nolley, 64, Harrisonburg, VA explores the ringing rocks of Upper Black Eddystone Thursday July 12, 2017. DAVID SWANSON / Staff Photographer
Ringing Rocks Falls, Upper Black Eddy, Bucks County, PA 2
Square Peg Round Hole Plays Ringing Rocks
Ringing Rocks Park is a 128 acre park located in Upper Black Eddy. Inside the park is an 8 acre field of boulders that, when struck with a hammer, sound resonant and reverberant; almost like a metal pipe. When we discovered Ringing Rocks Park, we knew that it would be an inspiring place for us to write and play music. As percussionists, we are always searching for unorthodox sound sources, and are often finding new instruments in unexpected places. We traveled to Ringing Rocks Park with filmmaker Kevin Eikenberg and documented the writing process of a song played solely on boulders.
Look for Square Peg Round Hole's sophomore album, Juniper, out March 25th on limited edition double vinyl, CD, and digital.
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Waterfall at Ringing Rocks Park - Bucks County, Pennsylvania
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Ringing Rocks - Twinkle Twinkle
At Ringing Rocks Park in Bucks County, PA, a group of people play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star with their hammers on the rocks. The rocks form a natural musical instrument. The other people near us in the park loved it!
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Creating music with hammers and rocks at Ringing Rocks County Park, Upper Black Eddy, Bucks County, PA
Ringing Rocks Park Pottstown, Pennsylvania
Park in Pottstown where rocks ring like bells when struck with a hammer. More info.
Ringing Rocks County Park
Hear the Touring Camper ROCK band in action :)