Climate
Located in Southern Indiana, Clifty Falls experience warm Spring and Summers with nice amounts of precipitation i.e. hot and steamy at times, Winter and Fall is moderate with temps rarely dipping low.
Understand
The most popular visitation time is December through June, when the falls are at their fullest.
Landscape
425 million year old shale and limestone containing countless fossils can be viewed throughout the park in the bedrock. The numerous falls and canyon are a huge draw for the park. Sinkholes and a cave too. It's quite a beautiful park!
History
Clifty Falls entered the State Park system in in 1920, now covering more then 1400 acres. The Ice Age brought on the formation of Clifty Falls, when south flowing waters of Clifty Creek met the Ohio River, plunging two hundred feet high. Eventually the falls cut their way more then two miles into the bedrock. Now it's sixty feet high, slowly making its way upstream at around one-quarter inch a year.
Many of the stone work and pathways got their start from the Madison and Indianapolis railroad being built in the area around 1852. The railroad went bankrupt, leaving excellent foot trails and a muddy rock strewn 600-foot tunnel accessible by the trails.