Road Trips and Hike Reports

I found this hike, as I do so many, on Alltrails .  The drive was just over an hour and other than the 20 miles on I-90 Eastbound, there were very few cars out and about on NY-96 and NY-414 past many many wineries, almost all with amazing views perched over Seneca Lake.  I'm still surprised how quiet Western NY is in a lot of places, even in summer, even not particularly early in the morning.  It is a huge relief to both Brian and I not to be dreading getting in the car.   The trailhead involved driving about 4 miles along well maintained dirt roads.  The trail is in the Finger Lakes National Forest, one of the newest and the second smallest National Forest in the US.  There was a pleasant and fairly constant light breeze this morning which helped mask the upper 70's temperature (and maybe about the same for humidity).  We started off going to the wrong trailhead (they were only .25 miles apart) but that gave us a chance to see a very secluded and beautiful pon

Though there have been other hikes in 2019, we've not been doing a ton of great hikes and the blogging kind of fell by the wayside since we aren't actively pursuing any specific 2019 hiking goal. Not wanting to put bug repellent on, I started looking for an urban walk we could do early Saturday before it got too warm.  I was originally looking at walks downtown but we did one of those not too long ago and the eerily quiet kind of sketch downtown Rochester downtown on a Saturday morning scene wasn't that appealing.  So I kept googling and I came upon an appealing shot of a curving walkway over water... Once I figured out that it was Turning Point park, we were off.  Besides never having been to this park, I'd actually never been on the state portion of 590 (I-590/NY-590) which goes north of I-490.  Rochester has a few roads like this where part or most of the mileage is an Interstate but the road continues on, suddenly a state route with the same number.  I fin