Sunday, July 19, 2015

Hike 24: Watkins Regional Park

This place is fantastic for kids!  There's a great nature center that you start at and lots of little trails. 
The longest one is called "Spicebush Trail" and it takes you the whole way around the park.  It's a little overgrown and I don't think many people walk the trail.  I was periodically freaked out by spiderwebs strung across the trail, but it wasn't awful.  The book says the trails are "mostly names, signposted, and color coded" and that's true for the most part but sometimes the trails end very abruptly in a field of nothing. 


And Spicebush Trail sort of dead ends into a parking lot and I never found the rest of the trail, so I wandered around and eventually followed a road back to the nature center.  But that's when I discovered the best part!  They have an old farm that wasn't open that day, but you can wander around outside the fence and they have PEACOCKS!  I took pictures and videotapes for a good twenty minutes.  They were so cool.  They also have turkeys and chickens and probably some mammals too, but I couldn't see them.


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