We went to Crawford Notch state park today. It is very close to where we are camped. The s ate park campsite was full this weekend. We saw 6 waterfalls.
Flume Cascade, Silver Cascade
Popular photo spot, the bottom of Silver Cascade
Riply’s falls on Avalanche brook, it drops 100 feet, a one mile round trip hike.
The Appalachian trail crosses this area here. Oddly it says 332.4 miles to Mt Katahdin, the northern end of the trail. It said 332 on top of Mt Washington which is north of here. There are a couple different routes you can take through this area on the AT. This way must bypass most of the presidential range. Red sugar maples
Bemis Brook. We took the the Bemis Brook side loop to see two extra beautiful falls. It was extremely steep, rocky and rooty. This whole area is layers of granite. Hiking in this are is very strenuous.
Bemis Falls on Bemis Brook
Bemis falls. We had lunch here, sitting on a ledge in the sun. I saved this butterfly’s life. He had a wing tip stuck to a spider web. He was madly beating his wings trying to escape to no avail. I released him with a pine needle and in gratitude he posed for a photo.
Another falls on Bemis brook. John on the Bemis loop trail, lots of rocks and roots.
The Arethusa Falls trail, is very well maintained and a much easier hike, still very steep. Arethusa Falls. It falls 200 feet and is the tallest waterfall in New Hampshire.
John flirting with a young woman at the bottom of the falls. Her boyfriend was climbing the steep cliff face for a better shot of the falls. We left before he had a chance to fall.
Frankenstein Trestle. This used to be the main route for the train from the coast of Maine to the great lakes. Now they use a short route on it to run a sightseeing train through the notch. We could also hike another trail up to Frankenstein cliff, add another 2.9 miles to our already 4 mile hike.
The bus in the fall color.
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