Coming from Speculator, follow Route 30/Route 8, and you’ll see a sign for “Snow Plow Turnaround” with a dirt road on your left (this is the Old Route 8b/30). Continue past this road and in about 0.3 to 0.5 miles you’ll see a small parking area on your left. There is a short but steep […]
Follow Hope Falls Road/Mud Creek Road to the end (there are signs along the road), to a small dirt parking area at the beginning of the trail. This is state land, but you do have to cross private land to get to the falls. There is a sign saying that the landowner allows this, but […]
We don’t know if this is a private park or a town park, as it was closed when we were there, but they do have a day use fee and you don’t have to stay there to use the beach. They have cabin rentals and RV parking, as well as a restaurant and ice cream […]
There is a small parking lot/pull off area right where the river meets Peckville Rd. This seems to be a park that is no longer maintained. Right near the parking area there is a good sized waterfall with a pool below, but we couldn’t find a path to it, and with little time to explore, […]
CURRENTLY CLOSED Ok this place is FOR SURE illegal, and it is the only location that we saw police coming to kick everyone out, and tell them they would be arrested for trespassing. We didn’t know that it was illegal when we visited, as there used to be a park here. Apparently the structures were […]
The parking area is hard to see as you’re driving along, so our GPS is from the dam as it is the easier landmark to locate. The parking area is a small pull off on the left hand side, south of the dam on Route 24, but before the sign marking the state owned boat […]
A park ranger told us about this location, and that people swim here. There is a cascade fall emptying into a medium pool with clear water and a sandy bottom. We would guess that it is about 4 ft deep. Reportedly there is more swimming up, and downstream, but we don’t know exactly where as […]
This is a highway rest area with access to the Willowmec Creek. This has been listed elsewhere as a place to swim, but we found it sort of unappealing. To get here, take 17 East from Roscoe and get off at the rest area signed as a “Text Stop” around mile marker 313, and before […]
This is a “See” location and is not safe for swimming. Multiple people have died here, so even if you see others in the water please know that this is not a safe area, and it is only for viewing. This is a park of sorts, though it isn’t clear which pathways are open […]
This is a spectacular waterfall, flowing off of a high ledge and down into shallow green pools. Multiple sources say there is a swimming hole at the top of the falls, but we couldn’t find the trail to it. We went directly to the lower fall and couldn’t find trails from there, as they were […]