Charlotte's Way (blue) > (1.75-miles from parking area to Englewood Road) it begins at our trailhead parking area and runs along a white pine lined ridge and then slopes down into a shaded cove of tall basswoods, beech, birch and yellow poplar. Leaving the cove, The trail opens to our meadow along the river. Turning east the trail narrows and cuts along a path through boulders, buckeyes and northern red oak. Coming out of the boulders, the trail widens again and follows an old road back into another cove of mixed hardwoods and alone one of our many cool spring branches. Leaving the tall hardwoods, the trail opens to old narrow pasture fields that lead back to the top of the hill where the trail ends at our green gate. If you prefer not to double back to the park area the way you came, you can exit to the left of the gate and then turn on Englewood Road for a short 0.1-mile hike bike down to the parking area. Charlotte's Way is our main trail and most of our trails connect to it. (Easy to moderate trail)

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Dickenson (red) > (1.0-miles from Charlotte's Way to the New River) Dickenson begins on Charlotte's Way near the parking area. The trail leads down through mixed hardwoods and by our woodland pond, then turns back into mixed oak-hickory hardwoods. Keep an eye out for the bear tree at the top of the next hill (claw marks on large Fraser magnolia). When you reach the top, you will pass through a wooden walk-through gate and enter one of our 17 pasture paddocks on the Farm & Forest. Please leave gates closed to help us keep our cattle from hiking the trails. The trail re-enters the woods about 200' from where you entered the pasture (look for the red blazed post and the next walk-through gate). Here the trail is narrow as you pass through the tall yellow popular and continue through the pines. The trail arches back up the ridge where it meets up with Philen's Point Trail. To the left Dickenson continues but is not the same gentle trail you started on. From here pack a lunch as the trail starts its journey to the river down a steep old logging trail overlooking the water as you go. The trail has a slight zigzag as you go into and out of the watershed and then a final decline to the New River between two iconic cliffs and across from the mouth of Elk Creek. There are no outlets here so be ready to make the steep climb back out. (Moderate 1st half to hard 2nd half)

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Philen Point (green) > (0.3 miles from the fork with Dickenson to the Point) Beginning at the intersection with Dickenson, the trail follows the ridgeline overlooking the New River as you go. The trail twists through older growth hardwoods, white pines, and eastern hemlocks until the trail ends at the Point. (Future picnic and lookout spot.) From here you can look up and down the New River with views of Riverside. (This is a deadhead trail and requires you to double back to connect to the other trails) (Easy to moderate trail)

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Herb's Pass (white) > (0.1-miles from Philen Point to Charlotte's Way) Begins about halfway down Philen Point and leads you down to Charlotte's Way just before it reaches the river meadow. This is a short connector trail. (Moderate)

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Icy's Loop (orange) > (0.6-miles from Charlotte Way's first cove then back to Charlotte's Way at the river meadow) The trail begins in the cove and crosses two woodland streams as it climbs up and over one of our river bluffs and then follows the river ridge above Charlotte's Way. The last section becomes steeper just before it connects back to Charlotte's Way along the river. (Moderate trail)

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Over the hill Trail (green) > (0.5-miles from Dickenson Trail to Englewood Road) It begins where Dickenson Trail meets our woodland pond. From there you will follow a steeply sloped roadbed through planted eastern white pine to the top of the hill where the trail comes to one of our walk-through gates and you will enter a pasture field. The next walk-through gate is located about 100' across the field where you will enter one of our managed hardwood stands. Passing down through the hardwoods you will come to an area where old pasture fields were planted into eastern white pine to prevent erosion. The trail ends at Englewood Road and across from our red barn. To return to the parking area, turn left and walk up the hill to the parking area (about 0.5-miles). (Moderate trail)

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