As we start a New Year, we look back at our last year and try and see where we have been and where we are heading! I was considering hiking the Appalachian Trail for 2023 but in reviewing many things that are going on in my life, I realize that this is not the time! It is important to have […]
The Appalachian Trail starts at Springer Mountain but most people start at Amicalola Falls State Park. Why add 8 plus miles on to your hike? The classic photo under the stone arch, ATC’s Thru Hiker Orientation Class (Free by the way), get a shakedown of your pack before your friends and family leave and they can take things home for […]
Grayson Lake State Park in Kentucky is an amazing place to visit. It was just like heaven when I visited. The clouds came over the hills and the hills were just so green. Plus it has to different dams. I just wish I had a boat to completely enjoy it! The one dam is clearly waiting for the flood of […]
Rainbow Springs State Park is partly man made and partly nature. The site once was the home of mammoths, Native American, and a town named Juliette which helped mine phosphate in the area. But in the 1930s, it became a theme park with glass boat rides, a zoo, a monorail, a rodeo, and more. But the theme park closed in […]
Falls Park is a great place to spend a day and fall in love with the place. They have everything that you can possible want to do and the relaxing sounds and the beauty of the falls. Downstream from the falls just a bit is where they believe that the Dubuque house which was the local hotel around 1857 when […]
Sutersville to Buena Vista is mostly through neighborhoods but one part has the greatest thing around, the Red Waterfall. It was the Red Waterfall that got me to hike the whole Great Allegheny Passage Trail. I was looking for a waterfall to see just before Covid19 hit. I found this one. No one was on the trail the day I […]
The Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) is a trail from Cumberland, Maryland to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The GAP Trail is either 149 or 150 miles, depending on what your looking at, long and mainly flat because it once had railroad tracks of the Western Maryland Railway (WM) and the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad (P&LE) which have been removed to make a […]
Just outside Pittsburgh is this little park that has a wonderful waterfall. It is just a short walk up to the falls with some beautiful sights. The falls are about 30 feet high. Located off highway 28 at 187 Fall Run Rd, Glenshaw, PA 15116. It less then a 10 minute drive from downtown Pittsburgh and less then a mile […]
Buttermilk Falls, Homewood Falls, or Smiddy’s Falls, depending on who you ask, is just a beautiful place to spend a bit of time. It is about 40 minute from downtown Pittsburgh. If you are using your GPS, then make sure that you put in Buttermilk Falls Natural Area or you end up on the other side of the tracks in […]
It is wonderful to find a place that has a short loop hike which is about a mile and a half long and see new amazing waterfall at every turn. The hike is short enough that you do not need to take a drink, snack, or anything else with you but your keys. But I would plan to spend several […]