No claim jumping to worry about, getting the word out about publically accessible waterfalls is the important part, maybe we can get a link on the main page sometime. Love your fall color shots, I should get over there before all the leaves are gone.
Yeah, back in the day, it was the spot for parties, though I can't be 100% sure that people dragged actual kegs down there. I do know there was quite a bit of beer consumption considering all the bottles that used to be strewn around at one time. I remember going there several times when the road was practically blocked with cars parked on both sides. A hot summer day would see easily 100 or more people there. Also seemed to be more open areas around the bottom of the falls then, which has grown up in woods, brush, & poison ivy now. There would be lots of people swimming in the plunge pool, climbing the falls and jumping off, that sort of thing. That sort of thing is probably what prompted the neighbors to put up the obnoxious posted signs. Since the Nature Conservancy has owned it, I would guess the wild times are a thing of the past. When they first purchased the area, you used to be able to park 3 or 4 cars on the side of the road near the trail, but now they even have that blocked off and you have to park down on the main road across from the cemetery.
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Well, that's a bummer. Not surprising, but still a bummer.
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I couldn't open that link. I sense it was not closed because I put my car on the road in full view and walked in front of some houses and even said hello to one of the neighbors across the street.There war no other posting that I saw than this.Hmm? Did I miss something?
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Found the original article:
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article ... 583114.php
Seems they are only closed in the summer? But it says the parking area was to be blocked off, and it obviously hasn't, unless they un-block it for the winter? If I get a chance, I'll head over there in the next few weeks and take a look.
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article ... 583114.php
Seems they are only closed in the summer? But it says the parking area was to be blocked off, and it obviously hasn't, unless they un-block it for the winter? If I get a chance, I'll head over there in the next few weeks and take a look.
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