Take Walk Down Oneonta Gorge
With Goodyear Lake’s Antonuccis
Editor’s Note: Here is a report from the Antonuccis on happening upon Oneonta Falls during a visit to Oregon, the topic of an article in this week’s Hometown Oneonta.
While visiting my son and his family in Portland, Oregon, for Thanksgiving, we were surprised to find a connection of Oneonta to the great Northwest.
We were visiting the famous 620-foot Multnomah Falls on the Columbia River gorge, and came across a less visited site for the Oneonta Gorge. We stopped and hiked the trails and took pictures, and wondered why it was named Oneonta.
It turns out that it was named by an Oneonta, N.Y., native, Carleton Watkins, who is a noted landscape photographer. Watkins came west in the 1850s with Collis Huntington seeking gold. Huntington became a railroad tycoon, and Watkins photographed throughout the West including Yellowstone and San Francisco.
The Oneonta Gorge is gorgeous and requires getting a little wet and hiking to see the upper and lower falls.
FRANK AND MARY ELLEN ANTONUCCI
Goodyear Lake