Watkins Glen State Park

We had an outing where we went to the famous Village of Watkins Glen. It is famous because of the annual NASCAR Race held here at the International Race Track, but we were told about the breathtaking State Park and we were on a quest...

Little did we know when we started out the price we would have to pay to see its beauties! It was indeed breathtakingly beautiful but the price was far above money. It was stairs...

and more stairs.................

Stairs without hand rails....

Steep stairs.... But then suddenly there was a breath taking waterfall!

Just enough to captivate you and entice you to want more. Unfortunately to see more you had to pay the price of MORE stairs....

Then paradise was your reward!

This spectacular scenery was brought about by a glacier creating a narrow gorge 400 feet deep through rock leaving a hanging stream behind.

The stream left behind created rapids and waterfalls where it met with layers of hard rock.
Just when you think you've climbed all the stairs there could possibly be...there are more.

But the view just beyond the next set of stairs was ALWAYS worth the effort.

Some of the trail is over a waterfall and some of it is under one. Here is my favorite companion going up the next set.

There are 19 waterfalls in all and everyone of them breath taking.

Some of the waterfalls you can stand behind.

Some of them have a Romantic feel

Lover's Lane......not Lover's Leap!

There are over 800 stone steps in all and we were very successful and tired at the end of the hike!

It sort of made our 19 steps up to our apartment seem not so bad......

....until the next day when every leg muscle we had (and a few we didn't know we had) were all screaming at us!

The Village of Watkins Glen is on the south end of Seneca Lake - one of the five finger lakes.

The outing was phenomenal....but I am not sure we will be willing to pay the price again.

Mother Nature certainly has her beauties and I am glad we captured some of it to share with you.

I am also glad we can enjoy it again by simply looking at our blog. Much easier on the legs!