Cloudland Canyon State Park and Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center

 

Cloudland Canyon State Park has been featured here before, although the fabulous views experienced here the first year we visited were traded for a much more damp experience in 2025. The first night we were here, a terrible severe thunderstorm dumped a considerable amount of rain over a 2 hour period of time with a tornado warning to make the event complete. The Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center we visited the following day was flooded and muddy, so we spent time looking around the park (Cloudland Canyon) where there wasn't flooding happening instead of hiking the trails that we originally planned. These pictures are from the morning after the big storm, which turned out very foggy to get the day started.

Grove Campground and Middle Fork Falls

 

Grove Campground is a beautiful campground located in southern Kentucky in Daniel Boone National Forest above Laurel River Lake about 10 miles from the Corbin exit at US 25W and I-75. It is heavily forested and the sites are arranged in two loops. It isn't a huge campground with only 40 sites. Unfortunately, I was only here for about an hour or so before it started pouring rain, so I only got 4 pictures.

Next on the camera roll is a Phillips 66 gas station in Tennessee along State Road 62. I thought the station was defunct, but it may still be open. The owner would be about 90 years old according to an online check, which may explain the rundown appearance of the station.

Last bit not least in this entry is Middle Fork Falls, just a few blocks from the gas station.

Raymond B. Winter State Park

 

Raymond B. Winter State Park is located less than 30 minutes from I-80 in Pennsylvania and the campground is surprisingly quiet and shady, a wonderful place to stay for a few days. I wish more campgrounds were like this one. I visited quite a few on this particular trip which fit into similar profiles, thankfully. 

Port Kent

 

Lexie and I took a short ride to Port Kent, New York, the last day we were at the Ausable Chasm Campground. Unfortunately, the ferry service between Port Kent and Burlington, Vermont, has been discontinued. As a result, the beach and ferry area have been abandoned and stood empty. This song came to mind.