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06/07/2026

Pinnacle Rock rises 40 feet above Buttermilk Creek in Buttermilk Glen in . Here's how I think it could have formed.

Thousands of years ago, everything you see was stone. The creek was channeled through fractures in the rock (called joints) to the right of where the pinnacle is now. The creek slowly eroded down to where the trail is now.

Meanwhile, however, the water also found a route to the left, and gradually tore its way down there more efficiently, forming its current, preferred passage. Buttermilk Creek consequently abandoned its older route on the right, and it has left Pinnacle Rock standing between them.

Imagine where Buttermilk Creek must have been back then. Just look at the top of Pinnacle Rock. The stream would have been up there!

(It's likely that during high flood times, Buttermilk Creek has gushed around Pinnacle Rock, using both its current and former routes.)

In the 1800s, this formation was known as Steeple Rock.

06/04/2026

The falls in "Devil's Kitchen" in the Upper Gorge yesterday. The owners of the former 19th century hotel in what is now the Upper Park named this and Lucifer Falls to give this awesome gorge a dramatic feeling. One photograph from the time called this waterfall, "Cascade of the Nymphs."
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05/23/2026

"Headwaters of Cayuga Lake"
online and on Ithaca TV today! Watch it online anytime anywhere at https://walkinthepark.tv or https://vimeo.com/1192328700?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

Or watch it on Ithaca TV channel 13 (on cable or on the Spectrum app) at the following times:
Saturday, May 23, at 9 a.m. & 5 p.m.
Sunday, May 24 at 9:30 a.m. & 5 p.m.

In this encore episode ( #39, from 2013) of Walk in the Park, we take you on a tour of the major tributaries and subwatersheds of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. Using beautiful aerial photography by Bill Hecht, we visit Cayuga’s Inlet Valley; the Lindsay Parsons Biodiversity Preserve of the Finger Lakes Land Trust; Enfield Glen and Lucifer Falls in Robert H. Treman State Park; Buttermilk Falls State Park; Sixmile Creek Nature Preserve; Cascadilla Gorge; Cornell University; Fall Creek and its gorge and Ithaca Falls; Salmon Creek and Myers Point in Lansing, NY; Taughannock Falls State Park; and the rest of Cayuga Lake including the Seneca River and Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge. Finally, we trace the flow of Cayuga’s waters through the Seneca and Oswego River system to Lake Ontario, the Great Lakes, and the St. Lawrence River. Watch it here!

Photo: Taughannock Falls, by Billy Hecht.

Walk in the Park is a noncommercial public access television program shown on Ithaca channel 13 (on cable and on the Spectrum app). It is produced by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions, Owlgorge.com, Ithaca, NY.

05/22/2026

"Headwaters of Cayuga Lake"
online and on Ithaca TV today! Watch it online anytime anywhere at https://walkinthepark.tv or https://vimeo.com/1192328700?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

Or watch it on Ithaca TV channel 13 (on cable or on the Spectrum app) at the following times:
Thursday, May 21, at 9 p.m.
Friday, May 22, at 3 p.m.
Saturday, May 23, at 9 a.m. & 5 p.m.
Sunday, May 24 at 9:30 a.m. & 5 p.m.

In this encore episode ( #39, from 2013) of Walk in the Park, we take you on a tour of the major tributaries and subwatersheds of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. Using beautiful aerial photography by Bill Hecht, we visit Cayuga’s Inlet Valley; the Lindsay Parsons Biodiversity Preserve of the Finger Lakes Land Trust; Enfield Glen and Lucifer Falls in Robert H. Treman State Park; Buttermilk Falls State Park; Sixmile Creek Nature Preserve; Cascadilla Gorge; Cornell University; Fall Creek and its gorge and Ithaca Falls; Salmon Creek and Myers Point in Lansing, NY; Taughannock Falls State Park; and the rest of Cayuga Lake including the Seneca River and Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge. Finally, we trace the flow of Cayuga’s waters through the Seneca and Oswego River system to Lake Ontario, the Great Lakes, and the St. Lawrence River. Watch it here!

Photo: Flying out of Ithaca with the valleys of Cayuga Inlet and Six Mile creek below, and Cayuga Lake far to the right. By Tony Ingraham.

Walk in the Park is a noncommercial public access television program shown on Ithaca channel 13 (on cable and on the Spectrum app). It is produced by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions, Owlgorge.com, Ithaca, NY.

05/17/2026

"Headwaters of Cayuga Lake"
online and on Ithaca TV today! Watch it online anytime anywhere at https://walkinthepark.tv or https://vimeo.com/1192328700?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

Or watch it on Ithaca TV channel 13 (on cable or on the Spectrum app) at the following times:
Sunday, May 17, at 9:30 a.m. & 5 p.m.
More showings next week.next week.

In this encore episode ( #39, from 2013) of Walk in the Park, we take you on a tour of the major tributaries and subwatersheds of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. Using beautiful aerial photography by Bill Hecht, we visit Cayuga’s Inlet Valley; the Lindsay Parsons Biodiversity Preserve of the Finger Lakes Land Trust; Enfield Glen and Lucifer Falls in Robert H. Treman State Park; Buttermilk Falls State Park; Sixmile Creek Nature Preserve; Cascadilla Gorge; Cornell University; Fall Creek and its gorge and Ithaca Falls; Salmon Creek and Myers Point in Lansing, NY; Taughannock Falls State Park; and the rest of Cayuga Lake including the Seneca River and Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge. Finally, we trace the flow of Cayuga’s waters through the Seneca and Oswego River system to Lake Ontario, the Great Lakes, and the St. Lawrence River. Watch it here!

Photo: 19th century picture of Forest Fall in Fall Creek. (Courtesy of Bill Hecht) Do you see the man?

Walk in the Park is a noncommercial public access television program shown on Ithaca channel 13 (on cable and on the Spectrum app). It is produced by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions, Owlgorge.com, Ithaca, NY.

05/16/2026

"Headwaters of Cayuga Lake"
online and on Ithaca TV today! Watch it online anytime anywhere at https://walkinthepark.tv or https://vimeo.com/1192328700?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

Or watch it on Ithaca TV channel 13 (on cable or on the Spectrum app) at the following times:
Saturday, May 16, at 9 a.m. & 5 p.m.
Sunday, May 17, at 9:30 a.m. & 5 p.m.
More showings next week.

In this encore episode ( #39, from 2013) of Walk in the Park, we take you on a tour of the major tributaries and subwatersheds of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. Using beautiful aerial photography by Bill Hecht, we visit Cayuga’s Inlet Valley; the Lindsay Parsons Biodiversity Preserve of the Finger Lakes Land Trust; Enfield Glen and Lucifer Falls in Robert H. Treman State Park; Buttermilk Falls State Park; Sixmile Creek Nature Preserve; Cascadilla Gorge; Cornell University; Fall Creek and its gorge and Ithaca Falls; Salmon Creek and Myers Point in Lansing, NY; Taughannock Falls State Park; and the rest of Cayuga Lake including the Seneca River and Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge. Finally, we trace the flow of Cayuga’s waters through the Seneca and Oswego River system to Lake Ontario, the Great Lakes, and the St. Lawrence River. Watch it here!

Photo: Six Mile Creek

Walk in the Park is a noncommercial public access television program shown on Ithaca channel 13 (on cable and on the Spectrum app). It is produced by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions, Owlgorge.com, Ithaca, NY.

05/15/2026

"Headwaters of Cayuga Lake"
online and on Ithaca TV today! Watch it online anytime anywhere at https://walkinthepark.tv or https://vimeo.com/1192328700?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

Or watch it on Ithaca TV channel 13 (on cable or on the Spectrum app) at the following times:
Thursday, May 14, at 9 p.m.
Friday, May 15, at 3 p.m.
Saturday, May 16, at 9 a.m. & 5 p.m.
Sunday, May 17, at 9:30 a.m. & 5 p.m.
This schedule repeats next week.

In this encore episode ( #39, from 2013) of Walk in the Park, we take you on a tour of the major tributaries and subwatersheds of
Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. Using beautiful aerial photography by Bill Hecht, we visit Cayuga’s Inlet Valley; the Lindsay Parsons Biodiversity Preserve of the Finger Lakes Land Trust; Enfield Glen and Lucifer Falls in Robert H. Treman State Park; Buttermilk Falls State Park; Sixmile Creek Nature Preserve; Cascadilla Gorge; Cornell University; Fall Creek and its gorge and Ithaca Falls; Salmon Creek and Myers Point in Lansing, NY; Taughannock Falls State Park; and the rest of Cayuga Lake including the Seneca River and Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge. Finally, we trace the flow of Cayuga’s waters through the Seneca and Oswego River system to Lake Ontario, the Great Lakes, and the St. Lawrence River. Watch it here!

Photo: Lucifer Falls in Robert H. Treman State Park.

Walk in the Park is a noncommercial public access television program shown on Ithaca channel 13 (on cable and on the Spectrum app). It is produced by Tony Ingraham, Owl Gorge Productions, Owlgorge.com, Ithaca, NY.

05/13/2026

A forest of ostrich fern unfurls near Buttermilk Creek in Buttermilk Falls State Park. May 12, 2026.

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