Road Trips and Hike Reports

A rare urban walk for us. It was pretty warm last Sunday (as it is THIS Sunday the 6th of July) so an early close walk was the right fit for the day.  We started off in the Maplewood neighborhood of Rochester and mostly walked along the Genesee River.  There are a series of interesting elevated walkways in the river gorge near the zoo but stretching for quite a distance along the river.  They are actually built like highway overpasses (no part of it was touching ground directly, it was a long onramp type structure) and it provides some really great views and a sense of being around nature but sort of not in it. The photos are mostly from the pond area in the actual park at the point where we turned around.  It was an enjoyable walk and there were very few people on the path.