ABOUT THE PARK:
Paradise Price Preserve - Brodhead Watershed
DIRECTIONS:
Parking Area 1 - GPS Coordinates 41.13244, -75.26350
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| Parking Area 1 as indicated on map. |
Parking Area 2 - GPS Coordinates 41.12750, 75.23099
Forgot to take a picture but it is off of Route 447 with a small parking lot at a picnic pavillion.
TRAIL MAP:
Paradise Price Preserve Trail Map Pamphlet - Brodhead Watershed
Paradise-Price Preserve, PA at EveryTrail
HIKE DISTANCE: 4.9 miles
Hiked together with
Mt. Wismer and Gravel Family Nature Preserves (15 minutes away) - 2.7 miles
THE HIKE:
Parking Area 2 was a straight shot south from the Mt. Wismer hike so that is where I stopped first. I had hoped, since this is shown as a parking area on the trail map, that there would be a connection to the trails on the other side of Brodhead Creek but there is not. Unless you want to ford over, and I did not on a 30 degree day, the trail, although quite scenic, is only .1 mile long.
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| Brodhead Creek |
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| Brodhead Falls |
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| The .1 mile long trail. |
So then, off to Parking Area 1 to see if I could reach the other side of the creek coming in that way since I had intended to hike those trails had I been able to get across.
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| We started on the woods road beyond the yellow gate. |
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| This is one of those chunky rock woods road and it runs parallel to railroad tracks, separated by trees. |
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| I intended to do this loop going by the falls (far right on the map at Parking Area 2) from the other side so I turned right. |
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| That plan soon failed when the trail became overgrown and fizzled out. Back the other way. |
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| So far so good. |
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| Ugh. Have I mentioned lately how much I despise helium balloons? I find them on almost every hike and pack them out when I can reach them. This one was packed out. |
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| After this fire pit ... |
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| The trail becomes less defined again. We managed to follow and get through for a while. |
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| But at this point and after pulling 6 ticks off of Shawnee, decided to turn back. |
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| Heading back. |
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| Back at the parking lot, turned right after the gate then right again at a trail with a large boulder... |
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| ... and followed that grassy woods road ... |
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| ... to the glacial boulder. |
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| Retracing back. |
