A Bike Ride on the Black River Canal Towpath Trail - Part 2

This time, we drove south about 1.8 miles from where we ended our bike ride last time, to a parking spot alongside Route 46.  Judging from the overgrown weeds, not that many people enter the trail through this gate.

 Golden rods border the trail most of the way, interspersed by a variety of other wildflowers.  How much more beautiful it must be when all these flowers are at their peak.  The grassy trail appeared more manicured than most lawns this time of the year.

Below this partially barricaded bridge, the canal appears to have been dammed so that the water was now diverted downwards, forming the impressive Baker's Falls.  But more about that next time.

South of this point, the canal is mostly silted, overgrown with grasses and wildflowers.