Ken and I were looking for a place to explore a few weeks back. The weather was beautiful and the leaves in full color. I stumbled across this place on the web, it was only about 30 miles from us . We packed up our backpack and went for an adventure.
This trial took us to some of the first Keystone Arch bridges made in America along the Westfield River. The Western Railroad, longest and highest railroad in America, connected Boston with Albany in 1840. The arches were as tall as 70ft high.
It was an amazing sight! Pictures just can't even begin to show the beauty we saw that day.
I have posted many :) because it was such an inspiring experience.
Ken was tasting the water coming from the rocks :)
Some of the trails were broad (with many rocks) and some more like paths through the woods. We walked for about 4 hours- needless to say, our feet really hurt near the end.
We crossed over the modern railroad a few times. Some of the bridges are still in use.
Everywhere you looks was so beautiful.
The trail took you to 4 arch bridges and one that was in ruins.
We sat on a stone wall and ate lunch- this was our view
And this, we were quite high up!
These walls were blasted with gunpowder, it was before dynamite was available- amazing!
The trail was very remote and we only saw a hand full of hikers throughout the day.
To give you an idea of the size of these bridges, that's me up at the top left side of the bridge. Ken climbed down to the bottom.
This bridge had a modern one built right next to it to reroute the trains.
View from the top
The bridges, side by side
The whole day was like heaven, only except for the peeing in the woods part :)
We did the entire trail, not sure how many miles but we slept pretty good that night!
On the way home we found another spot to explore so we stopped and used up the last bit of energy we could muster- that blog will follow!
