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| Pond filled with dead trees at Trenton Park |
Yesterday was a sunny but blustery, chilly day making my desire to go outside for walk waver between “hurray its clear enough to hike” to “heck no I’m not going out in that cold wind!” After some insistent pestering from my better half I dragged myself out of the house to the closest place to walk some trails; Trenton Park, the lone attraction in our small town.
Trenton Park is a 565 acre stretch of land inside the town limits. They have an outdoor pool, playground, outdoor auditorium and two ponds of varying size. There was at one time an active campground but it was been unfortunately closed the last couple years. My favourite feature of the park is the trails. For easy walking there is a groom gravel walking trail all the way around the ponds which totals about 3.5 km. There are also almost 7 km of mountain bike or footpaths through the surrounding woods and they offer a nice brisk hike without going too far from home.
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| Beaver Damn at Trenton Park |
It was these trails that we wandered for about 40 minutes yesterday. For such an unassuming place Trenton Park offers the kind of scenery you might find deep in the woods. Along the trails we found a large beaver damn admit a small forest of broken trees. The scenery was both beautiful and a little sad as many of the trees were dead and splintered to pieces. Walking along the rougher trails also provided great shelter from the cold wind that almost kept me in the house.
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| Pretty stone path at park |
For someone who only a half hour before whined about going out in the cold I really enjoyed the walk. It started my craving for hiking this year and as you can see from my previous post I have some big plans for that this year. Hopefully this weekend will be nice so we can hit up another local trail system at StonehameChalets on Fitzpatrick Mountain.
