Coal-Fired Plant

Trip To Madison, IN
My wife and I took a motorcycle trip to Madison, IN in early June. This blog post is part of a series which presents each step of our journey. If you missed the beginning, the story starts here.

Clifty Falls State Park's shortcoming . . . if it has any . . . would be the coal-fired power plant which sits between it and the Ohio River.

This isn't an issue for most of the park acreage, as it is rugged and wooded and vast . . . So much so that unless you visit the Park's extreme southern end you may be unaware of the power plant's existence.

To visitors of the Inn, however, the power plant is inescapable, since its smokestacks occupy part of the River View afforded by the Inn's spot on the hill. This bother some folks more than others.

This photo of Clifty Inn is courtesy of TripAdvisor

I'm among those who didn't find it objectionable. There were no filthy clouds of smoke. No raining of ash. The most noticeable aspect of the power plant, aside from its twin smokestacks, was the muted sound of heavy equipment loading coal from huge riverside stockpiles into conveyors, which I presume fed the great beast its steady diet of fuel.

Thankfully the din had subsided by evening.

Perhaps coal is only moved during daylight hours.

This photo of Clifty Inn is courtesy of TripAdvisor