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Bahar Preserve and Carpenter Falls
Bahar Preserve features the amazing Carpenters Falls, a 90′ waterfall on Bear Swamp Creek which feeds into Skaneateles Lake.
Near Skaneateles Lake, Bahar Preserve's dramatic forest and gorge landscape offers hikers a dramatic view of the 100-foot deep Bear Swamp Creek Ravine.
The trail also includes a 65-foot crescent of lakeshore, a great spot to beach a canoe or kayak before hiking up the ridge trail and features the amazing Carpenters Falls, a 90′ waterfall on Bear Swamp Creek which feeds into Skaneateles Lake.
Photos courtest of Finger Lakes Land Trust.
The trail also includes a 65-foot crescent of lakeshore, a great spot to beach a canoe or kayak before hiking up the ridge trail and features the amazing Carpenters Falls, a 90′ waterfall on Bear Swamp Creek which feeds into Skaneateles Lake.
Photos courtest of Finger Lakes Land Trust.
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