An elderly Illinois tourist plunged to his death while hiking at a New York state park after he fell from a rock ledge onto stone steps below, according to state authorities.
Married father Jack Wersching, 70, was walking along a waterfall path at the Kaaterskill Wild Forest in the Catskills Friday evening when he fell onto a trailway below, the New York State Police said Tuesday.
Park rangers rushed to the scene and extricated Wersching from the trailhead around 6:45 p.m., the state Department of Environmental Conservation said in a press release…