Laurel Ridge and Original Trail at Natural Bridge

To complete our afternoon at Natural Bridge State Park (see previous two posts about the Balanced Rock Trail and the bridge itself), we hiked part of Laurel Ridge Trail past the Skylift to Lookout Point, returned to Natural Bridge, and then descended via the Original Trail.

There were beautiful sights along both Laurel Ridge and the Original, with the view from Lookout Point back toward Natural Bridge being an obvious highlight.  But the most enjoyable part of the day, for me, was definitely our initial uphill hike via the Balanced Rock Trail.  I can't recommend that one highly enough.

A couple notes here...like the other posts, these are (mostly) sequenced in the same order in which they were taken.  Light started getting low on our way down, offering fewer photographic opportunities on the Original Trail.  In addition, my Nikon's battery finally died about 2/3 of the way down.  All of these were edited using the VSCO Cam app.