Lake Brandt in the Greensboro Watershed I won’t pretend this is a great hike. But it’s not too bad when you consider it’s entirely with the city limits of Greensboro, population 255,000. Owl’s Roost Trail snakes along the shores of…
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Places I’ve hiked and you should hike.
History Hike at Guilford Courthouse National Military Park
by tom • February 20, 2011 • 1 Comment
Statue of General Nathanael Greene, who led the Continental forces at Guilford Courthouse. This park is a history buff’s dream — right here in good ol’ Greensboro, the general famous for losing America to the Revolutionaries eked out a Redcoat…
First hike at Piedmont Environmental Center
by tom • January 16, 2011 • 2 Comments
Coming home with nice pictures changes the whole complexion of my hikes. Case in point: I hiked just over 11 miles Sunday on the trails of Piedmont Environmental Center, about 30 miles east of my doorstep. The hiking’s just bumpy…
First look at Crowders Mountain State Park
by tom • January 9, 2011 • 6 Comments
Weekends usually put the crowd in Crowders Mountain, the state park closest to Charlotte (metro area population 1.7 million), but the trails tend to be clear on January mornings when red’s all but gone from the thermometer. I started out…
First Hike of 2011: Lower Cascade Falls and Cook’s Wall
by tom • January 2, 2011 • 2 Comments
My New Year’s resolution is to hike a new trail every weekend. But coming up with a resolution was about as ambitious as I got Sunday morning, as I was satisfied with a jaunt to trusty ol’ Hanging Rock State…
First hike: Eno River State Park
by tom • November 28, 2010 • 2 Comments
We’re back to our late-November color pallet of dirt, bark and dead leaves, which, frankly, is a welcome break from Leaf Season and the one-hike-a-year crowd. Leaf Season was on my mind yesterday at Eno River State Park, which is…
Festival of Lights, minus the lights
by tom • November 21, 2010 • 0 Comments
I figured anybody could take snazzy nighttime snapshots of the Festival of Lights, which happens every holiday season at Tanglewood Park. The fest is one of the biggest light shows in the Southeast, which means the roads past our neighborhood…
History hike at Old Salem Musuems & Gardens
by tom • November 19, 2010 • 2 Comments
Consider this sequel to last year’s history hike at Bethabara Park. The first Moravian settlers in the modern-day Triad region bunked in an old trapper’s cabin at Bethabara, but their leaders back in Pennsylvania had much larger plans: a whole…
Quick pic from latest hike
by tom • November 14, 2010 • 0 Comments
I spent a few hours Sunday at Morrow Mountain State Park, about 60 miles south of the Triad. I’ve posted about all the fall-color shots I can stand, but I figured I could squeeze in one more and hopefully call…