Bike Ride at Sampson State Park – Thursday – August 8, 2013

Today, Bill and I decided to stay put and check out Sampson State Park.  The best way to do that would be by taking our bikes out for a nice ride.  Sampson State Park is quite large and has many roads.  These roads remain from the days when this park was a basic training facility for the Navy and the Air Force.

00b - Sampson State Park Map00c - Sampson State Park description
 
The park served as both a U.S. Naval Training Station during World War II and Air Force Training Base during the Korean War. Veterans from both eras have created a museum in the former brig/stockade. We visited the museum and will post about that on another day. 
 
 
Today, we will just take a ride around the park!!
 
 
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We started our ride at our camp site…
 
05a - Site 18 Sampson SP, Fingerlakes, NY
 
01 - riding towards the museum     01b - Lots of Roads to Ride
 
02 - Beautiful place to ride     02b - lots of small side roads
 
 
Had to stop and pick a few apples;o))
08 - Stop to Pick Apples     08b - The Apple Haul
 
 
02c - past the military cemetary
 
02d - lots of unused roads     02e - oops end of this road
 
 
 
 
04 - approaching the lake     04 - Cabins on the way to the lake05 - passing the marina
 
06 - view across Seneca Lake
 
 
 
06a - riding past the swim area     06b - riding through the dry camping sites
 
07 - Riding past the campground office
 
 
After a 10 mile ride, we were almost back at the camp site…
05b - Site 18 Sampson SP, Fingerlakes, NY
 
 
 
After our ride, it was time to make some applesauce!!
 
20 - Making Applesauce20b - Making Applesauce - Steam apples in Pasta Boat20c - Making Applesauce - into the Vitamix and we have applesauce
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5 comments:

  1. SherryDecember 3, 2013 at 10:24 PM

    Wow 10 miles around your park? That's great. I don't know if I've ever been at a park that I could ride 10 miles through. Every time we find a wild apple tree and pick apples they turn out to be so tart our lips pucker. I think you'd better 'splain that apple sauce making contraption. We all may 'need' one, who knows!

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  2. Dan and TriciaDecember 4, 2013 at 8:35 AM

    Looks like a great, great place to ride bikes! :-)

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  3. Gin and SylDecember 4, 2013 at 9:30 AM

    Being a decommissioned military base with all those old paved roads still good for biking kinda reminds me of Jonathan Dickinson SP in Florida. Hope the apples weren't too tart.
    Syl

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  4. Gail HouleDecember 4, 2013 at 11:54 AM

    Yum, homemade applesauce! I haven't done that in years. I used to make it all the time when we had apple trees :) Bet it tasted as good as it looks :)

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  5. Paul and Marti DahlDecember 4, 2013 at 12:22 PM

    It's amazing all the training facilities that were set up in WWII. It's hard to imagine all those recruits running around that now peaceful place. I wonder how many recruits supplemented their rations with apples from those trees?

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