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Maine Week Travelog #19
Baxter State Park, ME - Friday, 18 Jun 2021, 3:30pm.

Visiting Toll Dam on the Appalachian Trial (see previous blog) wasn't the end of the line for us. It wasn't even a planned stop! We were hiking to Little & Big Niagara Falls further downstream. "Downstream" is a good news/bad news proposition. Good news: the hike is mostly downhill on the way in. Bad news: it's uphill on the way out.

Little Niagara Falls in Baxter State Park, Maine [Jun 2021]

We arrived first at Little Niagara Falls. As its first name implies, it's not terribly big. The falls drops maybe 30' over a series of cascades.

We hiked out on the granite ridge visible in the right of the picture above. There were nice views of the whole area up there. Then I scrambled down a dry falls on the granite and made it to the bottom of the basin where I took this picture.

The fact that this was Little Niagara Falls increased our expectation for Big Niagara Falls further downstream. Alas...

Big Niagara Falls in Baxter State Park, Maine [Jun 2021]

...While Big Niagara Falls was definitely bigger than Little Niagara Falls, neither of them were comparable to their famous namesake, Niagara Falls. But they were nice as destinations for a walk in the woods.

Lower part of Big Niagara Falls in Baxter State Park, Maine [Jun 2021]

The big falls, like its little sibling, is composed of several drops in a row. Unlike at the little falls there was no safe way down the rocks from the top at big falls so we continued further on the Appalachian Trail to try climbing up from the bottom. Further down we did see some of the lower cascades (pic above) but it was too hard to wade/scramble upstream to get back to the bigger falls.

We turned around here and made our way back to the trailhead. It was uphill but not steep except for two brief stretches.


Date: 2021-06-24 06:46 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ihavenoarms
nice waterfalls we have a lot of waterfalls in are city to I think we have over 20
Edited Date: 2021-06-24 06:47 pm (UTC)

Date: 2021-06-25 03:17 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ihavenoarms
in Hamilton Ontario Canada web site link on water falls

https://tourismhamilton.com/hamilton-waterfalls-guide

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