Tourist Time, Once Again

After moving only 50 miles on Tuesday, we spent Wednesday playing tourist again.  Letchworth State Park is near here and is touted as “The Grand Canyon of the East”.  It is composed of over 14,000 acres along the Genesee River.  The southern entrance is less than 10 miles away.  Inside the park, the river drops over 3 waterfalls and flows through a narrow gorge over 600 ft deep in some places.

 

We walked a number of trails on the southern end, and drove the length of the park, exiting through the north gate at Mt Morris NY.  At the end of the park is a “dry dam” built by the Corps of Engineers as a flood control project.  There had been devastating floods about every 7^th year before this was operational.  It looks like there is room for a lot of water when it is needed.

The town of Mt Morris has a lot of well-kept older buildings, and we found a nice deli for a late lunch.

 

We got back to the campground and had time to do laundry and make a pot of chicken with spaetzle soup.  Yum!  Good end to a nice day!