This year we celebrated at Ricketts Glen State Park.
The park office.
The beginning of Falls Trail.
Gary hurt his ankle at the beginning of our hike.
Lake Leigh
The dam for Lake Leigh.
As you can see, the dam is breaking apart (you should not be able to look through a dam) and no longer functioning to really hold back water. According to civil engineer Gary Kulp, this is call a dam breech. I would call it the dam breaking apart and not working. The lake is now a small pond. The photo to the left shows the intended outlet for the lake, in the shadow at the bottom between the two supports. It is no longer needed due to the "dam breech."
Here is a map for Falls Trail. We started at the upper right where it says "Beach Area Parking" and hiked to the dam, then down to Ozone Falls, and then back to the parking area.
Gary likes the periwinkle
growing atop Shawnee Falls.
F.L. Ricketts Falls.
We decided to work our arm muscles next and went canoeing.
We saw a beaver lodge.
Lake Jean.
For our last stop at the park, we ate our lunch on a moss covered table.
And saw parts of Kitchen Creek ...
and the top of Adams Falls.
Here is our "cabin." When we arrived on Saturday night, the office was closed. We had no cell service to call, and we weren't sure what to do. We went back to the highway where we had service and was able to leave a message. We drove to another campground, which was full, then tried another. They had an RV that we could rent, which we were not all that excited about. Thankfully we had service long enough to receive a call from our campground and were able to go back and check in.
Gary was NOT impressed, but I thought it wasn't that bad.
It did have a water issue. It smelled like sulfur or something else very unpleasant.
We will not be going back to any of the campgrounds we saw.
To sum up, we had a very memorable anniversary weekend!
1 comment:
I need me a moss covered picnic table!!!
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