ABOUT THE PARK:
Kinzua Bridge State Park - Pennsylvania DCNR
DIRECTIONS:
GPS Coordinates 41.759449, -78.586946
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| I had intended to park at the General Kane trailhead, which is overflow parking, and make a 3-mile continuous hike out of the available trails but because it kept raining, I decided to do the skywalk first and they see if I could work in the General Kane Trail later. So this is the main parking lot at the visitor center. |
TRAIL MAP:
Kinzua Bridge State Park Trail Map - Pennsylvania DCNR
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| Both tracks together showing the connecting trail that can be used to make it one hike. |
HIKE DISTANCE:
Skywalk and Kinzua Creek Trail - 1.6 miles
General Kane Trail - 1.2 miles
THE HIKE:
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| It had rained on the drive in but stopped just as we arrived to off so the skywalk first to get that in. |
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| I had read that if you are afraid of heights that there is no way you can go out on the skywalk. I am here to tell you, as someone terribly afraid of heights, that it is totally not true. With the beefy railing, I was completely OK with it. |
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| I was even able to look over the edge to take pictures of the Kinzua Creek Trail down below without getting weak in the knees. |
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| The glass floor at the end didn't bother us either but then it's very foggy and not at all clear glass so that could be why. |
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| View from the end of the skywalk. |
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| Heading back. |
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| After looping back around to my car to grab a new camera battery, stopping at the observation platform on the way to the Kinzua Creek Trail. Rain still holding off. |
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| The end of the skywalk where we were previously. |
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| Now down the steep stone steps that we will have to climb back up on later. |
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| Just as we hit the trail at the bottom of the steps, the rain caught up with us. I had taken an umbrella since it was short and so I could still take pictures and not get the camera wet. Plus the umbrella served as a trekking pole on the way back up. When it wasn't raining, that is. |
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| Bridge over ... |
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| Kinzua Ceek |
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| There are no trespassing signs everywhere. Per DCNR: "Due to unsafe conditions in the area of the downed towers, visitors are prohibited from walking under the skywalk and in the surrounding area as indicated on the map." |
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| Yet there are people with their CHILDREN in the forbidden zone teaching them rules don't apply. This is how places get closed down to the public. Unbelievable. |
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| Heading back up. And it really wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. |
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| This is an authorized view under the skywalk near the top of the Kinzua Creek Trail. |
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| The rain had stopped so we drove on over to the General Kane Trail at the overflow parking lot. |
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| The General Kane Trail is flat and easy alternating between mowed grass and woods road. |
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| And here comes the rain again. |
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| Back at the car. |
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| Just as we left, rain started coming down hard and it rained all the way to ... |
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| ... the motel in Youngstown, Ohio. |
