Devil's Hopyard State Park

This 1,000-acre state park along the Eightmile River takes its name from a colonial hop farm once worked nearby, but it's known today for the circular potholes worn into the rock at Chapman Falls. Early settlers explained the strange marks as the Devil's scorched hoofprints, left when he fled the falls after wetting his tail; earlier still, local Native people attributed them to Manito, a deity said to have made the marks himself. The marks are, in fact, made by stones trapped in swirling currents that ground circular depressions into the bedrock over centuries — a real geological process that didn't stop either legend from taking hold.