>>28329471. I emailed the park before going and at least the memorial trail is open (apparently it was closed for a bit earlier in the summer - and their website is awful)
>that overlook was closedstill is, and you have to hop a fence - or theres NO VIEW AT ALL
you see NOTHING from the memorial trail except a few nice big old trees
> What does the updated viewing area look like? I'm guessing there's a platform and signs telling visitors to stay off the cliff's edge where locals used to go for decades.lol its just completely fenced off with endless signs telling you to fuck off and hope you don't get fined by a ranger if you actually, ya know, wanna see a view from the gorge - I drove 3 hrs each way to get there - I was not about to miss getting ANY sort of view.
>Did you hike the Valentine's Flats trail down to the confluence?No I was exhausted from previous hikes. This was actually quite an easy hike excluding the psychological barrier of having to do something illegal to get a view - why they can't just ya know build a railing at the overlook like normal people ????
> Were there any nudists around today?next time I will go down to the flats - also not sure if this is legal - but you can apparently (saw on youtube) climb "the pyramid" to what looks like the best view - though I swear I read/saw somewhere there were good views from the north side of the gorge - but that's illegal too
nys is an absurd nanny state with insane low, predatory speed limits and strict numerous rules for every park
>where locals used to go for decadesand that's what's so insane - people have been viewing these cliffs for HUNDREDS of years - instead of making it safe with a normal railing - they just fence it off
Does anyone have the meme of "welcome to new york you are now under arrest"?
