Hiking Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: September 3, 2024
This 100-acre peninsula was a unique habitat that contained many rare and interesting plants. The Youghiogheny River wraps around the peninsula on three sides. Overall, we hiked about 2.3 miles first heading south on the Oakwood Trail, then to the short Butternut Trail and then north on the Ferncliff Trail. The trail took us through an old growth forest of towering hemlocks, white pines and giant oak trees. Along the river’s edge we passed the Ohiopyle Falls with many exposed rocks since the river was very low due to the summers semi-drought. We were careful when walking around eddies and waterholes in the rocks as one slip and we would wind up being swept away toward the dangerous falls.
