Road Trips and Hike Reports

Blue Marsh is an 1100 acre lake in a 6000 acre piece of property managed by the Army Corps.  The Alltrails hike listing we used for this hike was only 4.1 miles long.  Since we weren't successful at hiking on Sunday (very high winds made driving let along walking difficult) we wanted to make a good showing to ourselves for this hike.  Instead of going just in and back on the same exact trail both ways we made a little balloon at the end of the original suggested hike and walked farther inland from the lake around some large fields then eventually back to return on the same trail we came in about half way back to the car. The most surprising thing about this hike was that it was peaceful, quiet and very isolated feeling. Why is this surprising? Because the trailhead (such as it is) is just a wide shoulder on the side of a truly horrendous stretch of PA-183 which runs between Reading PA and I-78.  I'm guessing this NW/SE running road is used as a shortcut of sorts fo...