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Visiting The Kinzua Bridge State Park

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I had originally left a lot of time in our schedule for this stop.  For some reason, I expected this to be a lot more of a hike. This is not a hike.  There is a paved, wheelchair accessible, path from the visitors center all the way out to the walkway.  There is another small walk to another observation area, and there are other paths, but you can see this very quickly and easily with no great athletic effort at all. Notice the two sets of tracks, one inside the other?  One of the signs explains that there are two sets like this in case the wind moved the train as it crossed - the train would catch the second set of tracks and keep going. It was breath taking.  I really wish we had gotten here before the storm destroyed the bridge, but I'm glad they have made it an area we can still visit. loved walking out on the bridge with the birds soaring right beside you.  At times I was looking at the tops of birds wings.  They were mostly vultures, but it was s...

Visiting All 117 PA State Parks

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Map of All Of The State Parks In PA When the kids were young, before we moved to the farm, we started camping because it was really the only vacation we could afford.  After a few years we decided to make it our goal to visit every state park in Pa before the kids were grown. And then we bought the farm.  It's much harder to pick up and go camping when you have a farm!  And then there were the kids sports and activities as they got older.... we didn't reach our goal.  So we'll change the goal. :-) I still want to see all of the state parks in Pa, even if we can't take the kids (now all adults) along with us. You can go to this link -  https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=18u5DfIbV4JFrU7_9JafJL2LSukk&hl=en_US&ll=40.96806350514185%2C-77.7070445&z=8  and it will take you to the map shown above.  Click on the three dots to the right of the title (in the red part) and choose Copy This Map.  Now you can rename it and edit it for your...