Island
Difficulty: Hard
Distance: 2.09 miles
Restrooms: Yes
Dog Friendly: Yes
Stroller Friendly: Yes (Grass Trail)
Playground: Yes
Location: Hopewell Area Recreation Complex
Anchor Clues:
- Starting from the parking area, walk to the pavilion. Standing in front of the pavilion, make a left and walk on the gravel path toward the baseball field.
- Continue to follow the gravel path around the baseball field. The baseball field will always be on your left.
- When the gravel path ends, continue walking straight in the grass toward the road.
- At the road, make a right and walk in the grass along the road. You will come to a crosswalk sign on your left. At the sign, make a right and walk between the wooden fences.
- Continue walking straight on the grass walking trail, till you come to a hiking sign on the left and continue following the grass trail going to the left.
- You will come to a 2nd hiking sign on the left; continue to follow the grass trail going to the left.
- After walking a good distance, you will come to a wooden fence and the road. Look both ways, then cross the road and continue following the grass trail.
- After some distance, you will come to a Y intersection. Follow the trail to the right, then make another right to follow the grass trail up a hill.
- When the trail levels off, look for the bird watching deck to the left, where the post can be found.
- To return to the parking area, walk back to the trail and make a left.
- Continue following the trail a good distance, going down a hill and then back up a hill. At the top of the hill, you will come to the road. Looking both ways, cross over and walk back to the parking area.
Recommended Books:
- Island Treasures: Growing up in Cuba by Alma Flor Ada
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Grimmiss Island by Art Baltazar
- Island Boy by Barbara Cooney
Pearls of Wisdom:
- An island is an area of land not connected to a continent and surrounded by water.
- Greenland is the world's largest island and Nauru is the world's smallest island covering just 8 square miles.
- Around 1 in 6 people on the planet live on an island.
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