So we took a little trip the other day.
We hopped in the old Insider mobile and headed south to Bow in search of some trails to walk on. Kinda funny how we drove in order to walk, but we needed to have some sort of energy left to make it through whatever we found. We did, after all, attempt to eat 2-pound tacos last week.
With so much open space in Bow, we knew it was only a matter of time before we could pull off the side of the road and enter a walking path. But luckily, we brought a few maps along to help us out, ’cause looking back, we could have been driving around for hours, run out of gas and made a big mess of the whole adventure if we didn’t.
We made our way to the Knox Road Town Forest and School Forest Recreational Trails off, coincidentally, Knox Road. We put the car in park, grabbed the camera and set out to see what we could find. Unfortunately there were no emus, but you can always hope.
If you were looking at the same map we were, you would have seen this forest was filled with a bunch of little trails that all seem to connect in one way or another – along with spread way across town.
It wasn’t long before we came to a fork. Do we take the Journey Trail or Woods Trail? We settled on Woods ’cause we were, after all, in the woods. It’s only 0.2 miles and it led to the Bear Trail, but we’re kind of scared of bears, so it wasn’t long before we turned around.
Since we were on a journey of sorts, we decided to head out a little ways on the appropriately named trail. Let us be the first to tell you, if you haven’t been out there, these are some pretty nicely maintained trails that can be used by just about anyone.
But we couldn’t spend too much time walkin’ and talkin’ ’cause we had other places to check out.
We decided to take a drive to the other side of the forest, which is off Robinson Road. There’s a little pull-off to park and unlike our other stop, there was only one trail to take – Line Trail. Turns out we didn’t read the map all that well, ’cause if we had, we would have seen that Journey and Line intersect somewhere in the middle of the woods and would have saved us on gas. Told you we aren’t woods savvy.
And a lot of the trails out there connect. Most of them are short on their own, from 0.2 to 1.2 miles, but put them together and you can have a nice little day of exercise and sightseeing.
In our drive back, we passed the sign for Bow School Forest and Wildlife Refuge, so it’s probably not that unusual that a deer came from that direction and ran right in front of us. Not sure where it was heading, but it seemed to be following the trails system.
Now to be clear, this is just a snippet of the trails you can find in Bow. We didn’t even get into the Nottingcook Forest Trail collection or the bunch of little spots spread around town. We get tired easily and really didn’t want to get too much exercise in.
But if we’ve done our job and got you interested in what there is for walking spots in Bow (we don’t want to give away all the secrets), check out the town’s website. There’s a bunch of really helpful maps on the conservation committee page that will tell you all you need to know.
Now it’s up to you to grab the walking stick and get out there.
Happy hiking.
