We arrived at the KOA outside Watkins Glen without incident. We are here for 4 nights to attend a rally of Country Coach International. This is not the first time we have visited this KOA. We attended another Country Coach rally here in September 2007. You can read about that adventure here and here.
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| This it NOT Dorcas |
The slogan for this rally was Waterfalls, Wineries and Gorges, Watkins Glen NY, September 21-25, 2015. We have the T-shirt to prove we were there.
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| Stumbling on to the bus. At least we weren't driving! |
On Tuesday we boarded buses and did wine tasting tours. There are eleven NY Finger Lakes, so-called because together they look like the fingers of a human hand. The Finger Lakes are a huge wine producing region. Watkins Glen is located at the south end of Seneca Lake, one of the larger of the Finger Lakes. There are 40 wineries on Seneca Lake alone. I wish we could have gone to all of them, but we went to only 4 for tastings
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| This one also had a brewery on site. I had an Oatmeal Stout. |
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| Dorcas is happy. |
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| Hazlitt produces Red Cat, the most popular wine in NY |
Red Cat wine has its own chant. It's a little bawdy.
In case you can't understand the lyrics:
Red Cat. Red Cat. It's an aphrodisiac!
Red Cat. Red Cat. It'll get you in the sack!
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| Watkins Glen State Park claims to be the Number 3 highest rated state park in the US |
We spent a few hours walking the gorge. It is 1.5 miles from the lower parking lot to the top of the gorge. There are 840 steps and about 550 feet elevation gain.
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| The Heart-Shaped Pool |
They told us it had been a dry month here, and there was little flow in Glen Creek, through the gorge. Apparently the waterfalls are much more spectacular when there is water.
A shuttle runs from the upper parking lot back to the lower parking lot, but it apparently doesn't run on weekdays in late September. We returned via the Indian Trail, which runs along the ridge of the gorge.
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| Dorcas trying to stay dry |
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| I love the look of a red canoe! |
1 comment:
Love the canyon. Must have been a really nice hike. Thanks for reminding me of Sterling Moss who was a famous figure during my youth. He drove some D type Jaguars which was the prototype for the E-Type Jags of which I had three. The last one was a V-12. Will send you a pic. I also had a 1962 Austin-Healy, but have no pics of it.
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