Restrooms can be accessed from the back of the building. Once checked in, you will proceed around the building and begin the Flume Trail. While youre there, check out the Flume Covered Bridge (across the scenic Pemigewasset River) and Table Rock (an open granite rock. You can explore the gorge on a short two-mile hikeit has a lot of uphill sections and stairs, so wear a good pair of shoes. Reservation check-in is outside on the walkway in front of the main building. This 800-foot-long gorge with towering granite walls is at the base of Mount Liberty. Go if you have never seen a gorge with water flowing through it, if you must. The Flume Gorge will be open daily from 9am 5pm until October 9th 9am-4pm October 10th to 22nd. There are so many other fabulous hikes in New England that are free, if I had my time over I’d save my $21 per person. There is a visitors center with a decent cafeteria and some trinkets on sale. Additionally, the flume gorge is less than one third of the way around the track so they could very easily have not bothered with all the other signposted features. All in all though, the other signposted features and the length of the track make it look as though they’ve padded out the hike so they can charge the $21 admission fee. As well as the gorge, the track takes you past other signed features such as another smaller set of falls and gorge, a pool, boulders moved by glaciers. The gorge has quite a bit of water flowing through it and numerous falls and rapids over maybe a 100 metre length. The hike takes you past the Flume Gorge, which is spectacular if you’ve never seen anything like that before but ho-hum if you are a seasoned bushwalker in Australia (as we are), where we run into these sorts of things often. The track is up and down all the time, so be prepared for the hills. This involves a 2 mile hike on undulating, made track (wide and mostly surfaced with compacted stones).
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