Up Where the Buzzards Fly - Vulture View Traditional Cache
Up Where the Buzzards Fly - Vulture View
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Turkey vultures (Cathartes aura) soar around this spot with a wingspan that can reach 72 inches. They are scavengers with a range from southern British Columbia, Minnesota, and New Hampshire to southern South America. You can look down on them and an expansive vista of the village of Bellows Falls. Below you is the first canal built in the United States. It allowed boats to bypass the Great Falls gorge. The Abnaki name for the “great falls in the river” was K’chi Ponteguh. The Connecticut River flows through Bellows Falls Vermont and North Walpole New Hampshire. Hetty Green, a woman millionaire, lived in town in 1800’s. On the banks of the river near the Vilas Bridge over the gorge you can see Native American petroglyphs. Trains wind their way along the western banks of the river cross the river to the round house on the New Hampshire side just below you or they disappear into the tunnel that takes them under the village of Bellows Falls.
Follow Mountain View Road past the elementary school to where the road ends. There is a small area to park there. Parking coordinates are N 43 08.507, W 072 26.361. Change in elevation from the parking area to the top is about 520 feet. Be VERY careful near the edge.
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