Archive for the ‘Bristol Hills Trail’ Category

New Hunting Closure on the Bristol Hills Trail

Saturday, October 2nd, 2010

From the FLTC website –>

Map B3, private property that heads west from Two Rod Rd immediately south of crossing with Hungry Hollow Rd: new owners are closing it for autumn hunting season, October 7 – December 21.  Signs will be posted at both CR 13 (Mitchellsville Rd) and at Two Rod Rd, but if you still want to hike (northward) that long section through Pigtail Hollow State Forest, from Access 18 on CR 13, then you will have to leave the trail where it turns from north to east at state forest corner.

Directions:   Just to the immediate left of the G in Granma’s Campsite label on map B3 is a dead end road (Runner Rd.).  It was “improved” as the logging landing back in 1998 when Pigtail Hollow had a huge red pine harvest.  That road goes straight south to the turn the trail follows around the corner with state and private properties, which is where a hiker emerges from the last of the post-logging section (walking northward from CR 13), jogs a few feet left onto an obvious old lane, then the trail turns right again into the woods, at a post with a DEC sign on it, reminding those who use the lane that no motorized users are permitted onto our trail.  TURN LEFT AT THAT POST AND FOLLOW THE LANE NORTHWARD instead of continuing on the FLT eastward.

The lane goes to an open weedy field shortly.  This logging landing not recommended for parking unless you have very high clearance.  Hunters park there a lot, too. Cross the field anywhere and aim for the NNW corner, where the improved lane goes downhill to Hungry Hollow Rd.  Turn right onto this very quiet dirt road to continue a little more than a mile to Two Rod Rd, where you will turn left to continue on the FLT.