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Hiking Trails List
Sand Run - Jogging Trail
Distance
7 mi (roundtrip between Portage Path and Revere)
Trail Type
Walking/Jogging - packed crushed limestone
Difficulty
Easy
Pets Allowed?
🐶✔️
Very flat trail - only a couple small hills. Great for a leisurely walk or run. Several parking areas along Sand Run Parkway with access to the trail. The trail is cleared of snow in the winter.
Towpath Trail - Cedarwood Village North to Botzum Trailhead
Distance
2.5 mi (one way)
Trail Type
Walking/Biking - packed crushed limestone
Difficulty
Easy/Moderate
Pets Allowed?
🐶✔️
Easy trail. Negative - you go past the composting facility - hold your breath.
Towpath Trail - Botzum Trailhead North to Ira Rd
Distance
2.0 mi (one way)
Trail Type
Walking/Biking - packed crushed limestone
Difficulty
Easy/Moderate
Pets Allowed?
🐶✔️
Easy trail. Gradual hill.
Towpath Trail - Ira Rd Trailhead to Szalay's Farm Market (Hunt House Trailhead)
Distance
1.4 mi (one way)
Trail Type
Walking/Biking - packed crushed limestone
Difficulty
Easy/Moderate
Pets Allowed?
🐶✔️
Easy trail. Not far from the start, there's a boardwalk over the beaver marsh. Pretty cool spot. You can often see Great Blue Herons in the canal or marsh as well as ducks, geese, and turtles.
Towpath Trail - Szalay's Farm Market (Hunt House Trailhead) North to Lock 29 Trailhead in Peninsula
Distance
3.3 mi (one way)
Trail Type
Walking/Biking - packed crushed limestone
Difficulty
Easy/Moderate
Pets Allowed?
🐶✔️
Szalay's Farm Market is pretty cool. Fresh produce at reasonable prices. Open June through October. Three eatery huts on the weekends. Corn maze mid-Sept through October.
Easy trail to start, a few small hills until just before you get to Peninsula - then there's a couple steep hills.
Nature Realm - Arboretum
Distance
1 mi (loop)
Trail Type
Walking - paved path
Difficulty
Easy
Pets Allowed?
🐶❌
Easy walk through the arboretum area of Nature Realm. Two small ponds. Flowering trees are pretty in the spring. Visitor Center - amateur photography exhibit January - May. Full restrooms with running water accessible from outside during park hours.
Nature Realm - Seneca Trail
Distance
1.4 mi (loop)
Trail Type
Hiking - dirt trail
Difficulty
Moderate/Difficult
Pets Allowed?
🐶❌
A nicely challenging hike on a horseshoe loop trail that follows down the Smith Rd hill. Total elevation change of 237 feet.
Patches of the trail can get muddy after heavy rain during the summer. Large sections get very muddy and slippery in early spring during winter thaw.
Nature Realm - Cherry Lane and Fernwood Loop Trails
Distance
1.5 mi (loop)
Trail Type
Hiking - dirt trail
Difficulty
Easy/Moderate
Pets Allowed?
🐶❌
Combine both loop trails for a nice 1.5 mi hike. Cherry Lane crosses a suspension bridge.
Sand Run - Nuthatch Trail
Distance
3.3 mi (total)
Trail Type
Hiking - dirt trail
Difficulty
Difficult
Pets Allowed?
🐶✔️
Challenging trail with many hills, several are more than 50 ft climb with moderate angle. The main section of the trail is a loop with a tail that you backtrack.
O'Neil Woods - Deer Run Trail
Distance
2 mi (loop)
Trail Type
Hiking - dirt trail
Difficulty
Difficult
Pets Allowed?
🐶✔️
This hike starts at the top of a hill. Total elevation change is about 260 ft. At the bottom of the hill, you cross bath road and follow a trail along Yellow Creek before crossing Bath Rd again and climbing back up the hill on the other side of the loop trail.
Hampton Hills - Adam Run Trail
Distance
3.2 mi (loop)
Trail Type
Hiking - dirt trail
Difficulty
Moderate/Difficult
Pets Allowed?
🐶✔️
Adam Run is the longer of the two trails at Hampton Hills. The start of the trail is relatively flat with a few small hills. You cross a creek bed a four times on stepping stones. After the fourth pass of the creek, you start the staggered climb to the top of the hill - about 300 ft total elevation change.
Hampton Hills - Spring Hollow Trail
Distance
1.9 mi (loop)
Trail Type
Hiking - dirt trail
Difficulty
Moderate/Difficult
Pets Allowed?
🐶✔️
Spring Hollow is a shorter loop that shares the start/end of the Adam Run Trail. Total elevation change is slightly less than Adam Run, but still a climb.
Sand Run - Dogwood Trail
Distance
1.9 mi (loop)
Trail Type
Hiking - dirt trail
Difficulty
Difficult
Pets Allowed?
🐶✔️
Very challenging start to this trail with approx 100ft steep climb. Once at the top, the trail is fairly flat until you descend back down to the street level. The descent section isn't quite as steep as the trail start.
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