Horse-Shoe Trail, Part IV

On 6/17 we decided to pick back up at Welkinweir and walk to St. Peter's Village, a quaint little community/tourist trap we'd never visited before. When we got to Welkinweir, all of the gates to the parking areas were locked, so we ended up parking on the shoulder a bit farther down Prizer Road--causing us to skip a mile of the trail! Oh well.

We took the new camera with us, and took our time, stopping to take plenty of pictures. We're still having fun learning the camera. This was a nice, mostly woodsy portion of the trail, with plenty of wildflowers to photograph. We came across a lot of wild raspberry bushes, but most of them weren't quite ready to be plucked. There were a few in full sun, however, and we helped ourselves to a couple of handfuls of red, juicy, delicious berries from the vine. The section of the trail ran along (and back and forth over) French Creek.

I guess if I was really interested in photography, I'd photoshop the electric tower out of this photo.

Raspberries!

So many lovely little wildflowers!

This part of the trail goes through Warwick County Park--a really nice park with trails and playgrounds and picnic areas.

Tiger lilies, leaving Warwick County Park (that's the park to the left).

We always sign the register!

Using a short spur trail, we emerged into St. Peter's Village to retrieve the car we'd left behind. It was Father's Day, so there were a lot of people wandering around town. We didn't make any stops (since we were stinky and sweaty), but there was a cute restaurant with a large patio over the creek and a couple of little shops. Cute!

Distance: 5.5 miles
All-in-all: Perhaps the best segment of the HST we've seen so far; loved the flowers, berries, and park!
Links: www.hstrail.org; http://www.chesco.org/ccparks/cwp/