Sunday May 18th 2025 - Commisioner Run Trail - Ulysses PA near PA Lumber Museum - 3.6 miles about 400 feet elevation gain

There is a beautiful but short well marked trail loop that can be started at the Pennsylvania Lumber museum and walks along a beautiful forested creek then crosses over the creek and comes back along a short piece of a longer trail.  I've wanted to revisit this trail for a long time and finally we made it to try a little more.

Ulysses PA is over 2 hours away so it was a good day to get an early start.  The drive down was good but it was a little wet and misty much of the way and we were expecting dry weather.  We parked on the west side of the creek (the opposite side of the creek from the museum) and headed North on the trail.  Soon we were past the relatively short portion we covered last time we went to the museum and the trail continued on staying near the creek.  Some parts of the trail were very wet and the sections with thicker coverings of grass got the bottom of our jeans pretty wet.  

I noticed a strange trail blaze along the main trail (which was blazed blue) and this marking showed 2 blue marks and 1 red one.  It wasn't immediately obvious but there was a slight trail off to the right (heading back towards the creek) and I hoped it might take us to a different trail I could see in Alltrails but didn't show as connecting to the trail we were on.  The red trail wasn't in Alltrails at all.  It took several minutes to look up and down the creek to find the least sketchy spot to cross we could.  It's fun but nerve wracking when we do crossings like this.  The red trail was minimally maintained but very pretty.  It pretty much just paralleled the blue trail on the other side of the creek but eventually it actually went back to the creek.  We didn't see an obvious continuation of the red trail on the other side of the creek which would have been challenging to cross anyway so we walked back the way we came.

 It was a really beautiful walk with a decent amount of elevation gain.  Hopefully we find more water resistant boots for Brian next time we try one of these wet walks.

 





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