Road Trips and Hike Reports

Various trails in and near park including Delaware and Raritan Canal Trail Posted by Chris 8/30/18 Basics: Length - 4 miles Elevation gain - 200 feet Nearest city - Titusville is pretty close to Trenton Difficulty - Easy hiking with some navigational challenges The Day: My goal was to get to Haddonfield NJ to see the Indian King Tavern Museum  and I heard Haddonfield has an interesting downtown.  We did make it to both the museum and downtown and both were worth seeing.  On the way down I tried to take some side roads and we were on NJ-29 for quite a while.  Brian was longingly looking at the canal's walking path and when I saw the signs for Washington Crossing I knew I finally had a chance to visit this park which has been on my to-do list even if our visit was more serendipitous than planned. The trail: We walked along one of the historic paths that Washington's army used from the visitor's center over to the canal and then walked North along the canal

East Shore Trail Posted by Chris 8/24/18 Basics: Length - 4 miles approximately hiked out of a 5.3 mile loop planned Elevation gain - 300 feet Nearest city - Prompton, PA (West of Scranton about 20 miles near US-6) Difficulty - Moderate terrain with some wet conditions today The Day: We were in Scranton to have one of the cars serviced.  Rather than having one person go to the dealership and sit around all day bored we both took the day off, both drove to Scranton in separate cars and then took off in the other car for the hike.  We started our hike about 10:20 using the Alltrails map for this hike. The trail: This was our second visit (ever) to Prompton state park.  It is one of the less developed PA State parks (no bathrooms, no camping areas etc as far as I know) and it feels pretty remote with just a small gravel parking lot and not much signage.  This does not detract from my opinion of the park at all!  With 26 miles of trails and a variety of geology and terr

City Park Trail Posted by Chris 8/24/18 Basics: Length - 3 miles Elevation gain - None Nearest city - Warwick, RI Difficulty - Very easy The Day: We were visiting Brian's family in RI and did mange to get one qualifying walk into what was a rainy and humid weekend.  The walk was very relaxed and easy until it started raining at which time we picked up the pace a bit. The trail: The trail goes out around a loop and at one point it goes right up to the shore looking across the bay separates Warwick into two separate peninsulas.  The shore view was probably the highlight of this basic walk.