Back in August of 2015, I uploaded my very first hiking video to this channel with a group of friends of Sam’s Point ( 
• Sam’s Point – Ice Caves, Verkeerderki… ). 10 years ago, we had fresher legs, lesser aches, thinner waistlines and more time. Almost 10 years later, during my 3 hikes in 3 days in March, I decided to come back here for the final hike of the 3 and see how things are going and what has changed to the place that started this hobby of mine.
This time around, we were unable to go to the ice caves due to it being closed for the season. We also chose not to take the detour to Indian Head as it wasn’t quite memorable the last time we went.
After arriving on a Wednesday in the middle of March at around 10AM, we easily found parking and proceeded to pay the fee at the machine by the visitor center. Sam’s Point is a popular hike and during peak season and weekends, if you don’t come early, you’ll have a difficult time finding parking. I can only imagine it getting more traffic after appearing on Season 2, episode 4 of Severance.
Anyways… initially we wanted to hike to Verkeerder Kill Falls and then to the Sam’s Point Overlook. However, we were early, and so I suggested we do the Lake Maratanza loop before heading to Verkeerder Kill Falls and end the day with the Lookout (this turns out great btw).
The whole time I’m walking, I kept trying to reminisce the me that did this hike 10 years ago. I kept questioning, did we really do all those miles back in the day? And in the Summer heat too? Jeez.
As we got to Lake Maratanza, it was frozen for the most part, but not the walk across the surface kind of frozen. After shooting some photos, we continued on and made our way to the Verkeerder Kill falls trail.
Let me give you this tip. Verkeerder Kill falls trail is a commitment. The waterfall is known to be temperamental and doesn’t always roar as you would expect a waterfall to do. As evident in my video from 10 years ago. We made the way out to the waterfall, only to be met with a really sad stream of trickling water. The waterfall will be great after rain fall, or snow melt, but if its been dry for a while, you might hike out there for nothing much. Might be good to ask trail groups or the visitor center.
Lucky for us this time around, the snow melt has made this waterfall roar with great intensity. It was pretty loud just chilling and admiring it from a close distance. After having lunch there, we headed back on the trail and went to Sam’s Point Overlook.
On our way to the Overlook, we were treated with amazing looking clouds overhead. I was able to get a few images of the clouds. In the end, it was a good hiking day with ~7.5 miles covered and a nice wrap up to my 3 hikes in 3 days.