We finally got a little vacation. I realized that I have not had a night away from home that wasn’t for business in a year. Last year was kind of a weird year and we both worked a little too hard. Anyway, as a birthday trip, we went to Ausable Chasm, which is in the Adirondacks – and called the Grand Canyon of the Adirondacks. It’s about an hour and a half from where we live, so a nice trip. We drove up on Saturday with no agenda and just stopped wherever we felt like and had a relaxing day. Then on Sunday, we visited the chasm.

This was truly a beautiful place. The Adirondacks are just gorgeous anyway, but this chasm is something special.

You start at the visitors center and view out over the chasm at Elephant’s Head.

You end up across the chasm on top of this head at one point as well. You then cross over Rainbow falls:

.Then you get to the chasm itself and choose your path:

To get to the end of the chasm, you can choose several ways to go:

We went on two of the routes. We took the inner sanctum route on the way to our raft trip because it goes right along the water. Then we did the Rim Walk on the way back, which took you above everything back to the top.

I’m uploading some videos here, so I hope they show up. This was walking along the chasm:

We were enjoying the walk!

Even though you are close to the edge, it felt very safe.

However, this bridge was a big old nope. You don’t go on this unless you are on some special tour, but no way for me:

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We got down to the rafting area and got ready for our ride:

Drifting down the chasm:

More of the ride:

Then you end up in the basin at the end:

There was a class 1 section of rapids, which were really fun. Just enough of a thrill, but not too much. This is the area that happened, which I took a picture of while on the trail since I didn’t want to lose my phone during the raft trip 😀

On the walk back up, we passed over other people going through the raft ride. Hello down there!

If you get a chance to visit the Adirondacks, put this on your list!