Buttermilk Falls - Buttermilk State Park (NY)

Considerably colder this far north. We wanted to take the walk up alongside the falls, but it was shut for the winter, so we admired from the bottom and then went to the play equipment and had an educational half hour. Educational, because you can do so much with play equipment if you stop and think about it, and a lot of it is still more or less safe (about as safe as giving your child a scooter, anyway), but actually interesting and challenging. This was one of those play sets.

Buttermilk falls runs into one of the finger lakes, then gradually runs through the rest of the finger lakes (there are about 5) and some clever clogs has estimated it will take 6 years for the water in Buttermilk Falls to get out to sea via this system of lakes.