Sunday’s Flash Hike adventure took us to Savoy Mountain State Forest and beautiful Tannery and Parker Brook Falls. Taking the Tannery Trail from New State Road (parking lot is just a bit farther in after the bend on corner of Burnett and New State Road) to the falls. Make it a 6 mile loop back on Tannery Road with several trails and options from the falls on Ross Brook Trail or Balance Rock Trail. Tannery Falls is formed on Ross Brook, a small stream that rises east of Lewis Hill and becomes Tannery Brook where it meets Parker Brook. The waterfall is 100 feet high, in earlier days the waterfall was known as High Falls.

Parker Brook Falls, a narrow-cut waterfall that slices through towering slabs of rock, descending at a steep angle. The waterfall is 40 feet in height. Parker Brook Falls is formed on Parker Brook, which rises from Shakey Pond east of Borden Mountain. The stream has also been called Tannery Brook Parker Brook flows into Ross Brook just downstream from Tannery Falls, and together the two become Tannery Brook. Tannery Brook powered a small mill until 1870. In the 1930s the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built a new concrete dam at Tannery Pond to replace an older one and did much to reforest the area following its days as farmland.

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