CNYHikes

     At the southern tip of Seneca Lake sits the small, charming village of Watkins Glen, NY - home to what many consider the best park in New York State's whole system.  This is a place, admittedly, I've visited once before and absolutely loved but put off coming to again because I knew it is popular and gets crowded with tourists.  But one day early in July, I finally put that all behind me and decided to take the drive out to the park and revisit its famous deep gorges and plunging waterfalls like I had several years earlier.      Watkins Glen State Park isn't necessarily wide but it is long - longer, in fact, than Robert Treman State Park, and, as a result, there are within its boundaries many enclaves that call for exploration.  Of course, the most popular path through the park is the Gorge Trail (1.5 miles long) and the Indian Trail  (1.0 mile long) which, if taken together, form a flattened type of loop through and above its gorges sliced deep by the lengthy Glen