From Cliffview to Chestnut Yard is a 4 mile, easy, slight downhill gradient with parking available at both trailheads. The trail follows Chestnut Creek with the highlight of this section being Chestnut Falls. There are several smaller bridges along the way as the trail criss-crosses the creek.
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"We actually do not know. Our only access to see in the nest is the camera feed which is not working. We are expecting a part Tuesday that hopefully will solve the problem."
"No the ospreys are fine but we are having a video feed issue that is stumping all of our technical experts. We are working as fast as possible to restore the feed. Our apologies!"
"When my husband and I were engaged, we took our soon to be "blended" family to Hungry Mother State Park for our first attempt at bringing together our three girls. He has two and I have one. One morning we decided to take the oldest daughter for a hike on Molly's Knob. We did the entire trail and the views were magnificent. More importantly I was able to start that relationship with the oldest daughter that I hold dear twenty-one years later. Thank you Hungry Mother State Park for a memory we'll…"