Nelson Ledges

We met some acquaintances at a state park: Nelson Ledges.

It’s a fun place for kids and a stressful place for parents. If you read my review of Letchworth State Park last year, this may sounds familiar to you.

Nelson Ledges is a scenic place, although on our day there were a number of rambunctious and/or reckless teenagers (or they could have been in their lower 20s, but I don’t have a good term for them that fits like “crazy teenagers” does).

Now for the pictoral tour through Nelson Ledges:

image of a walk through Nelson Ledges State Park

This was the start – just a walk along a forest path.

image of a walk through Nelson Ledges State Park

You can see how Nelson Ledges got its name – the rocks form ledges.

image of a waterfall through Nelson Ledges State Park

There are plenty of crevices and nooks and crannies and gorges and chasms and stuff. The waterfall started where we were – the hike went down to the bottom and then back up.

image of a walk through Nelson Ledges State Park

This is at the bottom. A lot of rocks with some water.

image of a walk through Nelson Ledges State Park

Then back up to what would seem like a normal forest path.

image of a walk through Nelson Ledges State Park

Except that sometimes you could choose a shallow path between rock ledges.

image of a walk through Nelson Ledges State Park

And sometimes you could choose a deeper path.

And if you weren’t watching your footsteps carefully, you could accidentally choose the deep path.

That was the stressful part of this trip. If you have a young child who doesn’t pay attention to his surroundings, or is easily distracted and walks in one direction while looking in another, he could end up falling down a 50-foot drop. That’s the difference between here and Letchworth. At Letchworth the drops were more like 200 feet.

But nobody had any troubles like that.

Near the end of our hike the boys found a large rock they could climb.

image of a walk through Nelson Ledges State Park

And here is another shot of the scenery we walked through.

image of a walk through Nelson Ledges State Park

Not a huge park, but interesting enough for an afternoon with the kids.

The high mountains are for the wild goats; The cliffs are a refuge for the shephanim.

Psalm 104:18

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