The Beautiful Watkins Glen State Park!
Watkins Glen State Park is the most famous of the Finger Lakes State Parks, with a reputation for leaving visitors spellbound. Within two miles, the glen's stream descends 400 feet past 200-foot cliffs, generating 19 waterfalls along its course. The gorge path winds over and under waterfalls and through the spray of Cavern Cascade. Rim trails overlook the gorge. Campers and day-visitors can enjoy the Olympic-size pool, scheduled summer tours through the gorge, tent and trailer campsites, picnic facilities and excellent fishing in nearby Seneca Lake or Catherine Creek, which is renowned for its annual spring run of rainbow trout.
Did You Know?
In the 2015 USA TODAY Readers' Choice Poll for Best State Park in the US, Watkins Glen won 3rd!
In 2015, the park was chosen from more than 6,000 state parks across the nation as a nominee in the USA TODAY Readers' Choice Poll for Best State Park in the United States, and won third place!
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Finger Lakes Fall from the Sky
In this episode of Walk in the Park TV, we go up in the air again with Bill Hecht's dazzling photographs of the Finger Lakes at the peak of fall colors. We see Ithaca, Sixmile Creek vally, Buttermilk Falls State Park, Cayuga Lake, Myers Point in Lansing, Keuka Lake, Bluff Point, Keuka College, Canandaigua Lake, Naples NY, the Hi Tor State Wildlife Management Area, and the Great Hill (or South Hill) at the south end of Canandaigua Lake, considered (and celebrated) by the Seneca Nation of the Iroquois as their birthplace. Great Hill is now a Finger Lakes Land Trust Preserve. We fly over Cliffside State Forest in Schuyler County and Cornell University's Arnot Forest in Tompkins County. We also go back to Ithaca Falls for a couple of short videos of the waterfall, fall colors, and fly fishermen in Fall Creek ( set to music. And we reconsider a couple of maple tree species in the western United States, the bigtoothed maple in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah, and the bigleaf maple on the West Coast, from California through Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and just into southeast Alaska. Join host Tony Ingraham in this scenery-packed episode of Walk in the Park (#26).
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Produced by Owl Gorge Productions ( at PEGASYS Studios, Ithaca NY's public access television center, run by Time Warner Cable.
Time Lapse of Hike up Mount Marshall, New York - Jan 2013
Wonderful day hiking up Mount Marshall in the Adirondacks. We slept the previous night in the lean-to right near the herd path. Actual time was approx 4-5 hours including water breaks and lunch. Great view from the top & a few good slides going down.
Google I/O 2010 - Ignite Google I/O
Google I/O 2010 - Ignite Google I/O
Tech Talks
Brady Forrest, Krissy Clark, Ben Huh, Matt Harding, Clay Johnson, Bradley Vickers, Aaron Koblin, Michael Van Riper, Anne Veling, James Young
Ignite captures the best of geek culture in a series of five-minute speed presentations. Each speaker gets 20 slides that auto-advance after 15 seconds. Check out last year's Ignite Google I/O.
For all I/O 2010 sessions, please go to code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions.html
Cherry Springs State Park
Cherry Springs State Park is a 106-acre (43 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Potter County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The park was created from land within the Susquehannock State Forest, and is on Pennsylvania Route 44 in West Branch Township. Cherry Springs, named for a large stand of Black Cherry trees in the park, is atop the dissected Allegheny Plateau at an elevation of 2,300 feet (701 m). It is popular with astronomers and stargazers for having some of the darkest night skies on the east coast of the United States, and was chosen by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) and its Bureau of Parks as one of Twenty Must-See Pennsylvania State Parks.
The earliest recorded inhabitants of the area were the Susquehannocks, followed by the Seneca nation, who hunted there. The first settlement within the park was a log tavern built in 1818 along a trail; the trail became a turnpike by 1834 and a hotel replaced the tavern in 1874, then burned in 1897. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries the old-growth forests were clearcut; the state forest was established in 1901 and contains second growth woodlands. Cherry Springs Scenic Drive was established in 1922, and the Civilian Conservation Corps built much of Cherry Springs State Park during the Great Depression, including a picnic pavilion listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). An annual Woodsmen's Show has been held in the park each August since 1952.
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Joint Legislative Budget Hearing on Environmental Conservation - 01/28/15
Joint Legislative Budget Hearing on Environmental Conservation - 01/28/15