Itinerary
Springwater
Fieldtrip K18
Sunday,
February 18, 2018
Participants:
Bill Menke and Dallas Abbott
This is a fieldtrip of opportunity. Dallas and I are
in Saratoga Springs NY mainly for a different purpose.
7:30 AM, Coffee at the Community Court Motel (248
Broadway, Saratoga Springs NY).
8:00 AM, Breakfast (egg sandwich) to go from Stewart’s
Shop (8 Circular St, Saratoga Springs NY).
9:30 AM: Congress Park, Saratoga Springs, New York
Spring 1, Site 32a,
Columbia Spring, in a small spring house. It is longer a
real spring and is now on city water.
Spring 2, Site 33, Congress Spring,
in a large spring house.
Spring 3, Site 34, Deer Park Spring. The small, ornate spring house that we visited last July
has been removed and the spring is not flowing
Spring 4, Site 85, Fish Pond Spring,
the inflow of a circular fish pond.
Spring 5, Site 35, Long Pond Spring,
a plastic pipe extending out from the ground at the end of a long pond.
Spring 6, Site 36, several plastic pipes extending out into
the War Memorial pond.
9:45 AM: Spring 7, Site 37, Hathorn
Spring, in a spring house at corner of Spring Street and Putnam Street,
Saratoga Springs, NY.
12 Noon: Lunch (sandwich and coffee) to go from Stewart’s
Shop (521 Broadway, Saratoga Springs NY).
1:00 PM:
High Rock Park, Saratoga Springs, NY
Spring 8, Site 39, High Rock Spring, with a tufa cone, in a spring house, as well as a nearby fountain.
Spring 9, Site 40, Cliff Spring, at the base of the cliff. It is not flowing.
Spring
10, Sites 41a,b with 41a closest to the road,
Victorian Fountain Springs, two fountains in a spring house in High Rock Park,
Saratoga Springs, New York.
1:15 PM Spring
11, Site 38, Old Red Spring, in a spring house at the corner of Excelsior
Avenue and High Rock Avenue, Saratoga Springs, NY
3:45PM
Spring 12, Site 9, Warm Spring (or Lebanon Spring), Spring
Hill Road (at Pool Hill Road), New Lebanon, New York.
5:00 PM, Dinner (fried chicken)
at the Roy Roger’s Restaurant in the New Baltimore Service Area, NYS Thruway.
7:30 PM, Arrive home,
Tappan NY.