ABOUT THE PARK:
DIRECTIONS:
GPS Coordinates 40.84284, -74.25963
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| Parking at the Hilltop Reservation Dog Park (entrance to the trails is at the gate where the trash cans are to the right of the dog park sign) |
TRAIL MAP:
Hilltop Reservation Map - Hilltop Conservancy (even though the map shows trails colored, other than the Lenape Trail there are no color blazes and the shaped markers are are sometimes sporadic)
HIKE DISTANCE: 3.4 miles
THE HIKE:
A hike in freshly fallen snow with my 7-year-old granddaughter.
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| Starting straight ahead beyond the gate to the right of the dog park, however ... |
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| ... some technical difficulties resulting in a very sad face. The mittens she brought were slippery and thick making it impossible to hold the trekking poles. |
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| Grandma's mittens worked. I always keep extras in my backpack in the winter. |
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| Proceeding with a happy hiker. |
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| We hiked a loop to the far end of the reservation and back the other side but trails were hard to distinguish in the snow so sometimes we had to backtrack to find the trail we needed to be on. |
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| Looping back the other way via the Lenape Trail. |
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| Up ahead to the left of the trash can is the Meadow Trail that traverses where the sanitorium used to stand. |
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| All that remains is the wall along the road. |
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| We noted the fact that it was Christmas Eve and we were on a trail marked with Christmas trees! |
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| Count them, eight dogs. Wow. |
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