Cascade Grotto

Tons of native boulders stacked into a two-story waterfall, grotto and slide.

The clients wanted a swimming hole, not a swimming pool. The answer was a freeform gunite pool wrapped in native stone: a grotto you can swim under, a slide that disappears into the rockwork, and a waterfall tall enough to hear from the house.

A raised spa spills into the shallow end, a pool house anchors the far side, and the whole scene is lit for evenings — the falls, the grotto and the surrounding hardwoods each on their own circuit.

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