The Mount Airy trail network in Paradise Township offers family-friendly trails with wetlands, creeks, views, native plants and wildlife. A good place to start for children of all ages is Woodland Trail along Forest Hills Run.
The trail is mostly easy and wide great for little kids and challenging enough for young teens. There is so much to see and learn! With a little imagination, you can engage everyone’s senses, including your own.
Ask the kids to listen for the bubbly chuckling sound of fast water tumbling over river rocks. Did you know that this little creek starts in Mount Pocono, and its water eventually joins the Atlantic Ocean? Tell the kids to lift their faces and feel the warm sun on their closed eyes and skin. How different it is in May from the cold, white sun of winter! Then open your eyes and look around native plants from low ferns to enormous hemlocks are everywhere. Crush a wintergreen leaf between your fingers and hold it to their noses to breathe in that u
Sussex Master Gardeners Workshop
Sussex Master Gardeners Workshop, 6:30 p.m., via Zoom. A Virtual Walk through the Woodland Trail, free. Go to bit.ly/3sQj4U1 to register.
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A diesel multiple unit at Zagreb Central Station. (Photo by Dorianbezak from Wikipedia)
Last year, when Washington’s east-west passenger rail study came out, the results were mostly uninspiring for a full corridor initially, but one particular section on demand in the Kittitas and Yakima Valleys stood out to me:
Snippet of corridor demand in the Kittitas and Yakima Valleys. (WSDOT)
In short, local transit demand exists in communities along where rail lines run that are not currently served sufficiently by local transit options. The current Amtrak Cascades program cannot address unmet needs like these, but perhaps a slightly different program might help. To this problem, I pose the following idea: Cascades Local Rail.
You can hike around a lake in these Pennsylvania state parks
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Most of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources’ state parks feature a lake. All of them have hiking trails. Many hold the potential for combining the two.
While a few state parks have individual trails that entirely encircle their lakes, many have trail and road systems that can be combined into a lake-circling route.
Maps of all these state parks showing the roads and trails can be found through DCNR’s Find A Park webpage:
Black Moshannon State Park, near Philipsburg – Around Black Moshannon Lake: Moss-Hanne Trail (2 boardwalk sections and plenty of wet areas), Beaver Road, Star Mill Trail, Beaver Road, Route 504 and West Side Road. About 12 miles; easy.
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The Pelican Nature Trail at Upper Souris NWR is short but offers a very interesting view of the National Wildlife Refuge below Lake Darling Dam. Four other walking trails at Upper Souris NWR, covering various terrain and lengths, are available to the public.
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With the winter season in the rear view mirror thoughts quite naturally turn to spending quality time outdoors, which often takes the form of exercise. Utilizing an area hiking trail is an ideal way to accomplish both.
There is no shortage of hiking trails in and around the Minot area, within and outside the city limits. Also, there’s a darn good selection, whether your preference be scenery or wildlife, level or challenging terrain. Here’s a few hiking trails worth stepping on.