Summer at Lovers Leap
by Karol Livote
Title
Summer at Lovers Leap
Artist
Karol Livote
Medium
Photograph - By Karol Livote
Description
Goodyear Island - Original Photography by Karol Livote
This was captured while visiting Lovers Leap park in New Milford, Connecticut. It is the Housatonic River looking upstream on the North West side of the park. There are old ruins nearby.
Trails through the park will lead the walker through centuries of land-use history. Heading northeast from the parking lot the trail utilizes the 1895 Berlin Iron Bridge, one of five remaining in Connecticut, to cross the Housatonic River. Across the bridge the Lovers Leap Trail heads southeast 1,200 feet to the rock formation that gives the park its name. From here, tradition has it, that the Pootatuck Indian Chief Waramaug’s daughter, Princess Lillinonah, and her lover plunged to their deaths. The Chief himself died in 1735.
Lovers Leap is a walk-in park with hiking trails, scenic vistas and historic ruins. The 160 acre park is divided into three sections, each featuring a different appreciation for the park history.
The view to the south overlooks a now submerged Goodyear Island named for an early fur trader from Derby who came there to trade with the established Indian Community. Industrial era ruins still exist near the water on the northwest section of the park.
Uploaded
September 24th, 2019
Statistics
Viewed 375 Times - Last Visitor from New York, NY on 04/14/2024 at 7:55 PM
Embed
Share
Sales Sheet