Cool Rivers

This weekend, we headed to Zealand River to find a cool place to spend the afternoon. We parked at the Zealand River day use picnic area, paid the $5 parking fee, and started walking up the road. We walked on the road, crossed the Zealand River, and quickly came to the Flat Iron cross country…

Zealand Valley Railroad Trail

Today we headed over to the Zealand area in search of the old Zealand Valley Railroad. We’ve explored a little over here before but never as extensively as we did today. We parked at the Sugarloaf Mountain trailhead parking – which was full of happy hikers. We followed the Sugarloaf Trail a short distance to…

Island Adventures

The other weekend, we packed up the canoe and supplies and headed to Long Pond. We’ve been here before and blogged about it 5 years ago: Long Pond. Alden didn’t remember and now revisiting the older blog post, we realize how young he was! The pond was busy with boaters, anglers, and picnickers. We loaded…