July 27 2019 urban walk -Turning Point Park - Rochester, NY
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 find this odd and wonder why the AASHTO didn't count the entire length of 390 and 590 as Interstates but either NY didn't ask or they were told no and here we are.
When we arrived it took a few minutes looking at a map to figure out which way that shot was probably from and once we figured out it was to the North, we set off on the wide paved multi-use path. After about a mile of quiet but unexceptional path alongside the Genessee River. we could see the bridge over the lagoon or whatever the wide area of water would be called. The over water area is quite long, 3572 feet according to this detailed site with a lot of pictures...
We took a few of our own...
The boardwalk was in direct sunlight the entire time we were on it (I had my shirt off which felt great!) but for the return trip we walked down River Street and Lake Ave, enjoying the shade and the variety of older homes and small businesses in this, one of may parts of Rochester we have never been to before. It was about 4 miles of walking in total, almost all flat but very enjoyable and peaceful on the Genessee River trail part.
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 find this odd and wonder why the AASHTO didn't count the entire length of 390 and 590 as Interstates but either NY didn't ask or they were told no and here we are.
When we arrived it took a few minutes looking at a map to figure out which way that shot was probably from and once we figured out it was to the North, we set off on the wide paved multi-use path. After about a mile of quiet but unexceptional path alongside the Genessee River. we could see the bridge over the lagoon or whatever the wide area of water would be called. The over water area is quite long, 3572 feet according to this detailed site with a lot of pictures...
We took a few of our own...
The boardwalk was in direct sunlight the entire time we were on it (I had my shirt off which felt great!) but for the return trip we walked down River Street and Lake Ave, enjoying the shade and the variety of older homes and small businesses in this, one of may parts of Rochester we have never been to before. It was about 4 miles of walking in total, almost all flat but very enjoyable and peaceful on the Genessee River trail part.
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