Trails added, reopened at two Finger Lakes State Parks
(World News USA)

October 10, 2019 Dan Keefe | Brian Nearing (518) 486-1868 | news@parks.ny.gov Connection to atop Watkins Glen reopens after four decades Excelsior Conservation Corps Contributes to project Hikers in the Finger Lakes Region have more places to explore, with a long-closed trail at Watkins Glen State Park restored and reopened, and an expanded trail network added to the Allan H. Treman State Marine Park on Cayuga Lake near Ithaca. At Watkins Glen State Park, it took crews more than 4,300 hours of work - nearly all of it by hand - during the last two years to restore a steep, badly-eroded and unsafe section of trail to the top of the gorge that had been closed since 1983. Rising from near the...