Watkins Glen State Park is located in the village of Watkins Glen, in New York's Finger Lakes region. The park's lower part is near the village, while the upper part is open woodland. It was opened to the public in 1863 and was privately run as a tourist resort until 1906, when it was purchased by New York State. The centerpiece of the 778-acre park is a 400-foot-deep narrow gorge cut through rock by a stream, Glen Creek, that was left hanging when glaciers of the Ice age deepened the Seneca valley. The rocks of the area are sedimentary part of a dissected plateau consisting mostly of soft shales, with some layers of harder sandstone and limestone. Trails run along the wooded rim of the gorge, and run over, under and along the park's 19 waterfalls by way of stone bridges and more than 800 stone steps.—Wikipedia
Bass Harbor Head located within Acadia National Park in the southwest portion of Mount Desert Island, Maine, at the entrance to Bass Harbor and Blue Hill Bay. Acadia National Park is a national park located in the state of Maine, southwest of Bar Harbor. The park preserves about half of Mount Desert Island, many adjacent smaller islands, and part of the Schoodic Peninsula on the coast of Maine. Acadia was initially designated Sieur de Monts National Monument by proclamation of President Woodrow Wilson in 1916. Sieur de Monts was renamed and redesignated Lafayette National Park by Congress in 1919—the first national park in the United States east of the Mississippi River and the only one in the Northeastern United States. The park was renamed Acadia National Park in 1929. Native Americans of the Algonquian nations have inhabited the area called Acadia for at least 12,000 years. Samuel de Champlain named the island Isle des Monts Deserts (Island of Barren Mountains) in 1604. The park includes mountains, an ocean coastline, coniferous and deciduous woodlands, lakes, ponds, and wetlands encompassing a total of 49,075 acres.—Wikipedia—This image was processed as an HDR (High Dynamic Range) composition.
