Sunday, February 18, 2018

SOUTHERN DELAWARE GREENWAY TRAILS


SOUTHERN DELAWARE GREENWAY TRAILS


Gordons Pond Trail:
    1. miles long, one way, walking or cycling. Has no arcades nor pizza shops and
runs between Lewes and Rehoboth. It opened 2014
Here, you can see bald eagles, deer, heron, osprey, and just birds of all feathers.
The Gordon Pond boardwalk, which was built to protect the dunes, keep the trail drained
dry, turns into gravel , friendly to bike tires, and there are self service stations at each end.
There are places where you can 'taste' nature, and there is an overlook a short distance in.
Easy access to wildlife usually best at sunrise or sunset and it is photo worthy. During the
warm weather season, water, insect repellent , is good to have along. It has a lot of marsh
grass and wetlands, which hold ticks and chiggers. Look for pink ladys slippers and beach
heather in the spring and keep away from the edge with poison ivy growing along the trails
edges. While here take a gander of the Delaware Breakwater, the Bay and lighthouses.


Junction & Breakwater Trail:
6 miles long, one way, walking, running or cycling. Still no pizza shops. Runs along an
old railroad, so to speak, which was the Junction & Breakwater built in 1878. The trail is
from Gills Neck, Lewes, to Hebron Road, Rehoboth, with access point here and there.
You will see farmlamd,, pine forest, open fields and wetlands. There are two railroad
trussels, one built in 1913, between the two towns. The surface is of crushed stone and
some asphalt..

McCabe Preserve Trail :
3 mile walking, goes through a143 acre Edward H. McCabe Preserve of the Nature
Conservancy, ranges from upland forest to swamp to tidal marsh, scrub-shrub wetlands,
and native meadow at the trailhead. There are river views and hillsides. Start at Round
Pole Bridge, goes to the Broadkill River. Get a look at the land as it was long, long, ago.



SOURCE: Delaware Today 2018 Ultimate Guide: Abstract Harrison H.


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