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| View looking down into the basin. |
From the Basin of Francis Walter I could see over thirty motorcycles parked on the road, which stretches across the dams top. I got back into my car to check it out and see what was going on. The road out of the basin is a little bit sketchy, it is a two way with only enough room for one car and there is only one pull off on the way up. In my opinion though the views are worth the nervousness of taking this route instead of traveling back the way I came in. At the top I found another pull off on the main road and a placard about the dam. I stopped quickly and took the photo of it below. It gives details about most of the aspects of the dam.
I hurried to the next pull-off to try to talk to some of the cyclists, but I was too late. As soon as I parked the convoy of two wheelers started off. I snapped a couple photos as they passed and began to walk towards the middle of the dam. Over the basin side the cars parked at the bottom looked like matchboxes and highlighted the enormity of this man made feat. On the other side fisherman worked their way down paths to get to the rippling Lehigh River, which seems to burst out of the dam’s spillway. After a few more pictures I was back to my car again. On the way in I noticed something strange and I wanted to check it out.
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| About Francis E. Walter Dam |
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| Cyclists getting back on their journey. |
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| To me, where the Lehigh River begins. |
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