Honor Heights Common Trails
Walking, running or riding bikes on the trails at Honor Heights Park is a bully agency to larn exterior this weekend.
Here's the scoop on all the options - Bresser is my favorite!
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With iii paved addition 2 primitive walking in addition to wheel trails, at that spot is something for everyone at Honor Heights Park. Amenities include restrooms in addition to H2O fountains.
The Walk, Run or Ride the Trails Week from March 27 to Apr 2 volition cause got free, organized grouping events at Honor Heights Park.
You tin view the trails on your own, too. Maps are online to impress or purpose on your telephone at www.Muskogeeparks.org/trails.
Woodland Garden Trail is a concrete .28-mile (round trip) stroll through what was called the White Garden, amongst several benches along the way. Park on the 48th Street side of the park.
Stem Beach Trail also is paved. The 2 access points are across the street from the Woodland Garden Trail in addition to at the Papilion butterfly garden. The .66-mile trail circles around the pond amongst benches along the way.
Arboretum Trail is a shady, paved .63-mile stroll through 400 trees, many of which are inwards bloom. Park across the street from the butterfly solid in addition to purpose either entrance into the arboretum.
Audubon Nature Trail is a shaded, unpaved, primitive, half-mile mile walk or cycle ride. It is accessible from Buffalo Drive, the Arboretum Trail, in addition to the Henry Bresser Trail.
Both of the primitive trails are somewhat challenging, unmarried file paths, amongst changes inwards elevation, tree roots, rocks in addition to poisonous substance ivy along the way.
Henry Bresser Nature Trail has several access points. Depending on your outset in addition to cease location, you lot tin walk a 3rd of a mile from the quondam rose garden to the Five Civilized Tribes Museum parking lot, or you lot tin larn over a mile if you lot proceed to walk by the museum parking lot.
One easy-to-locate trailhead onto the Henry Bresser Nature Trail is across the route from the quondam rose garden parking lot. Walk upward the native stone staircase in addition to you lot volition come across a Works Progress Administration-era picnic bench on the right. The trail is on the left.
Soon later starting the trail, at that spot is a stone staircase on the correct that goes upward the colina to a picnic bench therefore continues upward to Honor Heights Drive. The staircase is steep in addition to somewhat overgrown.
If you lot remain on Bresser Trail, you lot tin cause got a left, larn downhill, plough correct in addition to connect amongst the Audubon Trail, walking to the Buffalo Drive hairpin. Stay on Bresser Trail in addition to you lot volition operate yesteryear several stone picnic tables in addition to cease at Honor Heights Drive. Look for flowering periwinkle vines, forsythia in addition to old oak trees along the way.
Continue your walk through the museum parking lot in addition to plough correct onto the trail. Take the stone staircase downwards to the pavilion at the top of the waterfall. From at that spot you lot tin walk downwards the waterfall steps or cause got 1 of the primitive paths that atomic number 82 away from the pavilion to your left in addition to right.
All iii paths move at Honor Heights Drive. Cross the route in addition to plough correct to reconnect amongst Bresser Trail dorsum to the parking lot. The consummate loop takes less than an sixty minutes at a leisurely pace.
Reach Molly Day at mollyday1@gmail.com.
This storey is the 2nd of a three-part serial about Walk, Run or Ride the Trails Week.
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For data almost the Walk, Run or Ride the Trails Week activities: Doug Walton, (918) 683-0321; or Brooke Hall, (918) 684-6302, ext. 1477.