2010 Trip to Oceanside, Washington DC, Babcock State Park, WV & Ricketts Glen, PA

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Monday, April 12th, 2010

Today was mostly driving - about 550 miles. I much prefer to do less than 200 per day, but I wanted to get to Ricketts Glen State Park in PA today and find a motel in the area. I had already checked with a tourist information booth - there are no motels anywhere near Ricketts Glen.

I did stop to take a couple of morning photos of the Grist Mill since I had to drive right past it:

The Grist Mill at Babcock State Park, West Virginia
The Grist Mill at Babcock State Park, West Virginia
The Grist Mill at Babcock State Park, West Virginia
Glade Creek, Babcock State park, West Virginia

I checked with the office at Babcock - there were people inside even at 8:00AM, however they didn't actually open until the 15th so no souvenirs! The drive up US 219 through West Virginia is interesting. Up & down many hills & mountains. Maybe not as large as those in the West, but lots of 8% - 12% grades up & down. The RAV4 is great fun to zip around the curves.

The rest of the drive was not all that interesting; much of it on interstates which eat up the miles, but are pretty boring. I did get to Ricketts Glen State Park, an my GPS told me the Ricketts Glen Inn was just a mile or so past the park entrance so I gave it a try. Unfortunately, it is not open on Mondays. It looked more like a bar than an inn, so I probably couldn't have stayed there even if it was open. I went into the park to get a map & since it was around 6:00 I decided to check out a couple of the upper waterfalls. Although the park is mostly empty, there was at least one family in one of the cabins. I wish I had thought to bring some camping gear - I could have stayed in the park. I didn't think the camping areas would be open. I also met a couple of people climbing & photographing one of the falls, so, I included them in one of the photos.

Ricket's Glen State park, PA
Ricket's Glen State park, PA
Ricket's Glen State park, PA
Ricket's Glen State park, PA
Ricket's Glen State park, PA
Ricket's Glen State park, PA

Fall 2010 Trip to Ricketts Glen

After that I punched in "Find the Nearest Motel" into the GPS & Matilda (Carol named her) told me to drive all the way back to I80 & stop at the Super 8 Motel. Actually, there is a choice between the Super 8 & Motel 6, but, at least according to the cartoon at the desk, Super 8 has a better breakfast, so I'm in Room 116 for the night. Their WiFi seems to be working so I'll upload today's adventures & hit the sack.

Tomorrow I plan to start at the bottom & work my way up the falls. That way the return trip will be downhill. I do miss having Don & Anne along - For our 2001 trip Anne dropped Don & I off at the top & picked us up at the bottom - downhill all the way!

 

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