Tag: state park
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Fall Foliage Trip to Lake Minnewaska State Park
Minnewaska State Park Preserve is located just about a two-hour’s drive from Manhattan if the traffic’s on your side- and quite a bit longer if it’s not. Since we’d left bright and early, we thought we’d been able to dodge the worst of it when we came across a complete stand-still just about a mile…
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Taughannock Falls State Park
Standing 33 feet taller than Niagara Falls, Taughannock Falls is the tallest free-falling waterfall in the Northeastern United States. The State Park encompasses the waterfall, it’s surrounding trails and a fairly grassy beach area where Taughannock Creek spills out into Cayuga Lake. The Lower Falls area is extremely popular due to its convenient location near…
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Watkins Glen- A Finger Lakes Favorite
With the pandemic limiting our travel experiences, more Americans are beginning to discover beautiful places to explore close to home. One of the more popular of these locations is Watkins Glen State Park, located just off of Seneca Lake in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of upper New York. Only four and a half hours…
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Goblin Valley- A Hidden Gem of Geological Delight
Less than two hours from Canyonlands National Park and Arches National Park sits the vastly less popular Goblin Valley State Park, Utah. Millions of years of uneven erosion on rock layers of varying hardness caused unearthly mushroom like shapes called “hoodoos”, otherwise known as the Goblins that give this park its name! We didn’t have…