197-miles from campsite to campsite, we haven't driven that far since way back in early April when we were scrambling to get from Big Bend Natioanl Park in south Texas all the way up to just outside of Dallas to watch the Total Solar Eclipse with friends.
That was a lot of driving for us and I'm going to try and make sure we don't do it again!
New York's only National Forest is tiny by comparison. At just 16,352 acres the Finger Lakes National Forest is the second smallest National Forest in the entire nation. If you're thinking that New York doesn't have any large tracts of public land you'd be terribly wrong.
Outside of Alaska, Adirondack State Park in upstate New York is the largest in the nation at just over 6,000,000 acres. That's right, its not a typo, that's 6-million acres. That's larger than eight of our smallest states and accounts for 20% of the land in New York state.
THURSDAY - With our only full day here to explore we took a drive back to Quaker Lake which we passed on our way to the campground yesterday.
But first we took a drive down to the boat ramp here in the campground. It provides accesss to the Allegheny River which flows passed our campsite. There were about a half dozen trucks with empty boat trailers in the parking lot, but we didn't see a single one on the river.
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