Taughannock Falls State Park

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1 - Ugly, Not worth the trip
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2 - Could be better
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3 - OK, See it if you are in the area
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4 - Beautiful, worth the trip.
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5 - Must see, worth revisiting
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Total votes: 27
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One more. A closer up as I was about halfway up the walk to the lower viewing area. Taken Dec. 26, 2007.

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For anyone visiting T Falls, may I suggest a side trip to Lively Run Goat Dairy, open for farm purchases and tours from April 15th through October 30th. http://www.livelyrun.com/events.htm It's awesome, provided you like goat cheese! And if you think you don't like goat cheese, you are really missing something!!!

Another nearby destination that I want to see is Smith Woods, http://www.cayuganaturecenter.org/about ... woods.html, a 34-acre old growth forest in Trumansburg, managed by the Cayuga Nature Center. http://www.cayuganaturecenter.org/.

Here's a quote from the web page: "This 32-acre tract contains hemlocks between 150 and 300 years old, red oaks nearly 200 years old, and sugar maple, yellow poplar and beech exceeding 130 years. One very large cucumber magnolia is growing near the Sure Save entrance. Twenty-three tree species have been identified and labeled along the trail running through the woods. Some trees are more than 10 ft. in diameter and 130 ft. tall."
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Too cool, Mark--Lively Run is right down the road from us! Great folks. Smith Woods is a very nice place. I'm very pleased that T-burg has committed to protecting this resource. Being right on Route 96, at the edge of the village, they could have easily opted to develop the area. T-burg has always been a progressive, proactive community. Many of my old hippy friends settled down there to raise families. :lol:
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From Saturday June 27, 2009 during a visit from Minnesota

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SWCoulter wrote:From Saturday June 27, 2009 during a visit from Minnesota
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Scott, this is one of the best Taughannock Falls photos I have ever seen. Amazing!
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great shot. It has a ton of detail. :up:
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Thanks Matt and Angel! With all the recent rains, the falls were flowing nicely. Couldn't even take a shot from the end of the trail due to all the mist getting all over the lens. Definitely a big difference from when I was there last year!
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In my current activity of trying desperately to recover my images from a hard drive crash (making progress, outlook is optimistic), I found a nifty (I think) panorama I took at the overlook above the hairpin turn of the creek above the main falls. I forgot I had stitched this together, and it turned out pretty good. Since my images of the falls themselves can't hold a candle to the ones already posted, I figured this might be of some interest.

[img2]http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/4189/d ... aughan.jpg[/img2]

hmmm.... make sure to make your browser window as wide as possible to see it all.... Changed to img2 to make it fit & clickable..... better late than never....
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