Conde Nast Traveler Magazine named Watkins Glen State Park the best of the best.
Set in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, Watkins Glen is an incredible park to visit year-round, but it most springs to life when the autumn foliage is at its peak around mid-October. Towering cliffs and a series of 19 rippling waterfalls will leave visitors spellbound on the 2.4-mile Gorge Trail Loop, the most popular in the park.
Watkins Glen State Park is the most famous of the Finger Lakes State Parks. The glen s stream descends 400 feet past 200-foot cliffs, generating 19 waterfalls along its course.
High on a hill in Western New York is the final resting place of a Titanic survivor and her husband who died that fateful day 109 years ago.
Elizabeth Barrett Rothschild was born on February 10, 1858 in Watkins Glen, New York. She and her husband, Martin Rothchild, boarded the Titanic and set sail out of England on April 10, 1912. Four days later, her world would change when the ocean liner struck an iceberg just before midnight, 375 miles south of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic.
Elizabeth, safely made it onto a lifeboat along with her dog. Her husband, Martin wasn t so lucky. Two hours and forty minutes after impact, the Titanic sank with more than 1500 aboard, including Elizabeth s husband Martin on April 15th, 1912.
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