Hike #1646: 2/9/25 Knauers to Scarlet Mills with David Adams, Diane Reider, Kirk Rohn, John DiFiore, and Everen
This next hike would be a very nice point to point, this time returning to the Horse-Shoe Trail in the Pennsylvania German countryside and Furnace Hills.
We'd been working on the Pennsylvania Highlands series for over three years at this point. I wanted to do all of the trails in the triangle of the 911 Memorial Trail, and repeat the ones that I'd already done as part of it, and it's taking way longer than I would have ever thought it would, but all worth it.
We had left off the last time with only a bit of the Horse-Shoe Trail, and we cut to the north to Reading by way of Nolde Forest and other greenways, which had been great.
This one was one that doesn't really have swim opportunities, so I wanted to get this one out of the way before the cold weather was over.
Unfortunately, the last time I planned it, there was way too much snow and it was not good to do it.
This time, we again had snow just before the trip. I was concerned a bit leading up to it, but then it was only a little, and rather than reschedule again, I decided we would push through anyway.
The last time, parking at either end of the planned trip would be not possible with any substantial amount of snow. Even this time, if there was too much, I would have to come up with a backup.
As usual, people were scared off by weather and terrain, and so it ended up just being four of us most of the time, and five toward the end.
The saving grace for this one was that there were parts that would be all road walking. The trail passed through a lot of woods, but everything east of Plowville was pretty much road walk, which would of course be easy.
We headed out in the morning to get to the meeting point, and as we got closer to the place, there were some slippery road conditions, but not terrible.
Hay Creek Road was abandoned after being flooded out badly, and the middle portion of the road is now a trail. We got to the north end of the closure from the floods to get ready to go.
One other guy showed up while we were getting ready to shuttle the cars, to hike Birdsboro Waters. Really no one else was around.
The road was looking a little rough, but we managed to get to the end of it. We then got in my van to shuttle off to the start point near Knauers PA.
It was several back roads to get over to the start point, but didn't take too terribly long.
Our starting point, and the spot where we left the Horse-Shoe Trail last time, was a small pull off along Rt 625, New Holland Road, just south of the intersection with the side road Gray Lane.
The trail crosses the road directly at that point, so we immediately got off of the main road.
The trail is quite historic, and every time we do a hike that includes the Horse-Shoe Trail, I suppose it pays to relate the history and significance of the trail again, for those who found their way to just this journal.
The Horse-Shoe Trail in eastern Pennsylvania owes much of it’s existence to a man named Henry Woolman.
Woolman, a business man with the Supplee-Willis-Jones Company, and before the merger with the previous, General Manager of Woolman Dairies. He was a graduate and trustee for the University of Pennsylvania, and through these connections certainly would have had some social pull.
In 1926, Woolman purchased the Cressbrook Farm in the northeastern corner of Tredyffrin Township. An avid equestrian, he would spend his free time riding the many trails through area hills.
That same year, Woolman embarked on a two week horseback riding trip through the Great Smokey Mountains, through North Carolina and eastern Tennessee along the Appalachian Trail. Between 1926 and 1930, Woolman would embark on three more trips to the Great Smokey Mountains with hopes of having the Appalachian Trail opened to equestrian as well as foot traffic.
"Gradually the idea germinated in my mind that here at home we could have a little Smoky Mountain Trail and although the depths of the valleys were in hundreds of feet rather than thousands, the colors of the sunrises and sunsets were just as gorgeous.
There were ridges and ridges stretching across Chester, Berks, Lancaster, Lebanon and Dauphin counties connecting Valley Forge and the Appalachian Trail." Woolman said of the beginnings of the Horse-Shoe Trail Club.
By 1934, Woolman had ridden his favorite horse, Hackaway, along many of the woods roads, and in farther areas we explored by car.
In March of that year, he called a meeting of the University Club in Philadelphia to discuss the organization of a club that would build, mark, and maintain the trail. Many different organizations and officials from both the state and clubs attended, and appointed Woolman temporary Chairman.
The remainder of 1934 was spent locating, blazing, and blazing the trail with yellow painted horseshoes (which was later abandoned for standard paint, though occasionally an old horseshoe can be found along the trail).
"Let us work for a trail in the East, free from the automobile, without gas stations, billboards or hot dog stands on the entire length of 120 miles, dedicated as a parkway from Valley Forge to Manada Gap for hikers, riders and nature lovers." Woolman said of the new trail.
The club was officially incorporated and the trail opened in 1934-35.
Some of the trail has been rerouted from its original path, most notably the northern bit where the terminus had to be extended into St. Anthony's Wilderness when the Appalachian Trail was moved.
Even since my first time hiking through every section of the trail, here have been other reroutes, and we would come across some of that on this one.
We got everything together from the van, and I got Ev into the stroller right away. We carefully crossed the busy highway, and the trail sort of jumped up a hump and got on a private driveway known as Pinacle Drive.
This driveway was completely covered in ice and very slippery. It was easier than going through in fresh snow, which would have been more of a push, but tough to keep footing.
It looked like no cars had traveled on this at all yet. The only evidence of movement was a single set of horse drawn sleigh tracks.
The road paralleled the highway for just a bit, and then turned away to the left, east.
We passed through some woods and a few houses, and powered on ahead.
At probably the last of the few houses, a dog came out and barked at us. Dave, Ev, and I continued on ahead from here as not to interest them to the extent that they followed us, but it was too late for Kirk and Diane.
Despite having such trouble on the ice, which was still bad at this point, they felt bad that this dog was trying to get to us and run away with us.
I didn't want to stop moving because that meant losing some inertia. I was doing relatively well in the conditions but just couldn't stop.
Dave and I got to the bottom of a hill on the driveway, and to the right was a pretty pond and a farm. We noticed Diane and Kirk were way behind us at this point and not within sight. We figured they must have had an issue with the dog following.
They apparently went and knocked on some doors and such to figure out who the dog belonged to and what to do. Kirk mentioned that the girl who came for the dog was so extremely beautiful, that she looked near perfect.
Dave and I moved on ahead along the driveway portion. I was assuming that I was moving at a much slower pace than anyone else could, but I guess I proved before the end that I was still doing pretty well.
Further up the driveway, the trail turned off to the left onto a foot path. Pushing was okay at first, but it was much more bumpy. Ev doesn't like the bumps, so I let him get out and walk with Dave.
There was a bit of a slope that would have been hard to push Ev in the stroller on, but when we got by that and it widened to a sort of woods path, he got back in and it wasn't too bad.
Sometimes we were just on foot path, and other times it was old woods roads. Fortunately, now that we were in the further south segments of the Furnace Hills, it was far less rocky. The treadway was mostly stuff I could handle with the stroller.
This was the very first trip for my third regular newish stroller. My first one lasted the longest, from when Ev was born up until late Summer 2024. The second one lasted until the previous week, with some damages.
I had just picked up this new stroller that had barely been used off of Facebook Marketplace for like $100. It seemed to have some metal components where the old ones were plastic, which was good for Ev's heavier weight. The wheels moved really well, and it had no rust or issues because it was pretty much indoor kept.
It was really hard pushing along the trail, especially hills, but it was a little easier than it would have been if I had not been using such a nice and more new stroller.
We eventually came out to Schlouch Road, where I think we turned right briefly, and then left again into more woods heading uphill where Ev walked a bit more. He had been out walking, but I made him get back in the stroller briefly for the road section.
We passed through some nice woods, and skirted some pasture lands at a power line crossing. We then passed into more woods and came out to a second power line and field clearing where the trail turned to the left. Ev had been out of the stroller and walking for a bit of a rough stretch, and before we got to the larger clearing, he hollered to get back in. It was easy enough to push him again from there.
We headed east parallel with the power line, then dipped down along a field edge, past a hunting stand, and came out to Alleghenyville Road, where the trail crossed in a swath of land between two homes.
The trail weaved around a bit, but overall it was not too hard to push through. It was a footpath, but wide enough that all three wheels of the stroller fit through. To our left, there were seasonal views to the north over farm lands around Alleghenyville.
Soon, there were a couple of unobscured views, which were really quite nice facing the north.
The trail headed up to the edge of a power line and cultivated field edges owned by Brecknock Township, and followed that for a bit to the east. We dipped back into woods briefly, and then came to a bench and table, another pastoral view with electric animal enclosures, and a side trail to the right that leads to the Brecknock Township Municipal Building.
I had done a hike out of that municipal building in the past, or rather two, following the Horse-Shoe Trail in either direction the first time I passed though on the sections. This time we'd continue onward.
These new hikes are intended to cover new stuff along the way, reroutes and also other adjacent trails that we might not have covered in the HST series before.
We passed through some more pleasant woods, and then emerged at another field edge before coming out to a fence line blocking off a property to the right. It looked rather new, and I think the trail was in the same place, but it looked different than anything I'd remembered.
There was a bit of a view of the property to the right, which looked to be recently cleared land, and we remained along the fence line, past a picnic table, and then descended to Maple Grove Road. The trail turned right on the road briefly, crossed a power line, and then turned left into the woods again.
We ascended for a bit, and then reached a cultivated farm field the trail skirted. We followed this a bit, around a corner, and then cut into woods on the left where we ascended a bit more.
After another segment of woods, we came out to the edge of yet another corn field after passing between two large beech trees.
We passed along the edges of these fields, through a tree line into another field, and were afforded some nice pastoral views to the north, with some homes in the distance.
In this area, we crossed over Gebhardt School Road and continued through woods.
We entered another section of woods at the end of the field, and then made our way over the start of some springs, which are part of a western fork of Sleepy Hollow Run. We then ascended and descended through undulating terrain on both foot paths and woods roads.
We could sometimes see through trees at farm lands, and most of the terrain was relatively easy until we reached the headwaters of more of the Sleepy Hollow Run's west branch. This was a wide area of springs which I think might have been rerouted since the last time I'd been out there.
The trail weaved around in a circuitous manner much in the way mountain biking trails do. It went up and around one spring, weaved back in the same direction, dropped down a bit, and then crossed more springs. It was actually a very well built trail.
The others in the group took a shortcut that was probably the original trail route from the last time I'd ben out there, but for the stroller, the gentler new route was better. I was able to get through it pretty well without tipping.
We dipped down to where the trail crosses over the main flow of the springs, and I could push the stroller through the entire bit ahead, but there was one spot where it was narrow and a slip of the hand could make me drop Ev, so I made sure that I had the guys helping to stabilize me over the spot. It was a good thing too, because it felt worse holding on as we went by it.
Beyond there, the trail went onto a tougher side hill. It became more rocky, and the slope too much to have the two wheels on. I asked Kirk and Dave to help out with the stroller, and I took Ev out to carry him instead.
Even without the stroller, I had to watch my footing, because a tumble could badly hurt us both on this slope. The snow cover made it sometimes very slippery.
Soon, we reached Speck Road, and the rest of the group caught up.
The trail turned right on Speck Road briefly, and then turned hard left onto a private driveway known as Melcon Lane. I'd hoped it would follow it for longer, but after the initial rise, it turned off to the left into the woods again. It wasn't terrible though.
It was a bit annoying that we were descending yet again after a climb up the driveway. I think it might have been harder ascending on the slippery driveway than in the woods where I get a little more traction.
We came down close to the edge of the Sleepy Hollow Run, which as I understand is in the little settlement of Sleepy Hollow.
The stream was in sight, and we could see all of the homes beyond it. We followed along the slope just to the south of the stream, and there was a pretty pond we could see behind one of the homes.
We reached a driveway, ascended on it a bit, and then turned left off of it again, still above the stream heading east.
The trail weaved around a bit, and reached a point behind a camp area where there was a larger building, maybe an old hotel at one time, further from the creek, and a bridge across the creek leading to it.
There was a pavilion just off the trail in the other side here, which is all part of the Sleepy Hollow Athletic Club.
The trail continued beyond this into the woods road that followed a foot path along a very old road. It weaved across a spring, and we actually passed a guy on a mountain bike going through this area, probably the only other trail user we passed all day.
The walking got a little easier ahead as we crossed an access lane and the trail followed a more prominent old woods road.
In this stretch, we came upon an abandoned cabin on the right, as well as evidence of maybe another cabin having been there in the past. Maybe it was once part of the athletic club.
We continued past this, and soon reached a gully where to our left we could see the foundation ruins of an old spring house, stone covered in concrete. The trail continued from here parallel with the brook heading to the east.
In the area ahead, we came upon a wide flat area. I recognized this right away as an old charcoal hearth.
Charcoal is a wood byproduct that was used in the iron smelting processes of the past, before coal. Charcoal produced here was brought south three miles by horse drawn wagon to Joanna Furnace, which operated from 1791 to 1898.
There was even a yellow sign on the tree behind this one noting the historic significance of the charcoal production here.
We continued ahead, and came upon yet another charcoal hearth, but this one had a fire ring in the middle, as well as a nice grill on it. I wondered if they actually allowed for overnight camping along the trail at this point now. I know some of these trails are doing better with developing shelters for such things.
Soon, the trail turned hard left and descended on a couple of stone steps to cross a small bridge over the Sleepy Hollow Run. It resumed as an easier woods road again on the other side.
There were some obvious improvements once we got beyond the creek crossing. There were some corrugated pipes beneath the woods road ahead, and the trail was much easier. There was a little boardwalk area to go through a wet area as well.
Ev was getting pretty tired and falling asleep at this point. We soon passed by yet another charcoal hearth, with yet another sign about its history.
The trail continued to ascend, and shifted from eastbound to southbound, uphill through woods on the old woods road.
The road got much easier and wider as we continued uphill, and soon we came to back yards behind homes off of Alleghenyville Road in Plowville. We remained in the grass along the right side of a home and a large yard to the right, and emerged on Alleghenyville Road beside a large tree. The trail turned left here on the road.
We passed some farmland, and then reached the overpass for the PA Turnpike/I-176.
This is a spur of Interstate 76 in Berks County from the main PA Turnpike north to the Schuylkill River and Reading area.
This was conceived as the Reading spur from the Pennsylvania Turnpike; the first section and first seven exits opened in 1962, and the remainder of the highway opened in 1963.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike was originally designated Interstate 80S, and this was Interstate 180, but that was changed to current numbers quickly in 1964.
The route is also designated Veterans Memorial Highway for veterans of Vietnam, Persian Gulf, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
We had some nice views of the highway as we went across, and then ascended slightly into the little settlement of Plowville. We passed Eschelman Transportation yards on the left.
There was a large, old stone barn building on the left as we approached the main intersection in the settlement.
It was a lovely old bank barn, we could see as we climbed slightly farther. Across the street from here was the historic Plough Tavern, now a private home, in view, although I didn't know at the time.
This settlement was originally known as Plough Tavern, or Plow Tavern, and a drawing of a plow was on the sign board of the original tavern building.
The original Plough Tavern was a log structure that stood where the stone barn is today, on the west side of Rt 10. It was opened by John Kerling possibly in the late 1700s. The innkeeper in 1805 was William Witman.
The current stone building was erected by William Coleman in the 1830s. It was sold to Peter Schweitzer in 1840, and it was in the Eschelman family from 1865 to 1900. It was operated by Harvey Witwer from then until prohibition.
Straight ahead, the Horse-Shoe Trail continues across Morgantown Road onto Buck Hollow Road, which is along the south side of the former tavern building.
Originally, Buck Hollow Road intersected on the north side of the old tavern building, and that original route is now just a driveway for the property.
Across from this building was another old home, which I understand was some sort of store and I think the post office. There's a lot of history here.
My plan at this point wasn't to just continue following the Horse-Shoe Trail. I wanted to get a good break and a bite to east before we continued on.
When I had planned this hike, I saw that just north of the trail and the intersection was the Stampede Barbecue, a rather new establishment along the way directly.
I was looking forward to sitting down, having a drink and getting a bite, but when we arrived, it was closed down.
I walked up to the building just in case maybe I'd not seen right, or if there was just hardly anyone there, but it was closed. This was frustrating, because the Google maps had said that it was open.
I was kind of hungry, but I think I had a couple more snacks in the stroller to get me through.
Dave actually was going to head back early walking to the cars anyway, because he had a family get together he had to get to. I think this was Superbowl Sunday, which was also a reason less people showed up for it, and someone in his family was having a party.
I didn't waste much time. We continued back to the south a bit through the grass from the restaurant toward the old Plowville Tavern building, and then turned left onto Buck Hollow Road.
We continued downhill a bit, and the road was rather lightly used so it was nice.
Pretty soon, in a little driveway to the left, there was an old stone schoolhouse.
This building appears on the 1876 Reading Publishing Company Atlas of Berks County, and it says "Plough School District" on maps, so I assume it is the "Plowville School".
It is now a private residence and quite well kept.
Directly to the left of the schoolhouse is a giant White Oak tree, which might just be older than the school!
The trail continued to follow Buck Hollow Road to the east, and it was so much easier than everything I'd been doing all day. Hills were still a little rough with the stroller, but it was far more relaxing.
We went up over a bit of a knoll and descended again.
Soon, we passed by an old log cabin building on the left side of the road, with a painted white stone section to the left.
The building had a sign out front of it reading "Georgia", which I suppose must have been the estate name or something.
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| Amity Heritage Society, Plowville Tavern |
The log home was reportedly built in 1740. The 1876 Reading Publishing Company Atlas of Berks County shows this as the home of S. Witman.
We continued downhill a little bit more, and we crossed over the Beaver Run on a little bridge.
On the other side, there was a handsome little log cabin, which looked like it might be historic.
Based on what I'm being told, it may not be historic at all. It was reportedly built by adjacent landowners to be an office building for their use, which would fit into the area.
Off to the left of the road, there was the start of a large pond, but it was private, and the trail remained on the road.
To the right, there was a new development street turning right up the hill called Overlook Road.
I think this was the road that used to be the route of the Horse-Shoe Trail. When we hiked this section in the past, it was a particularly fun one where we were all wearing old Circuit City uniform shirts.
We turned right on the road here, and as we were reaching the top of the hill, there was a couple and their kids outside their houses. One of the kids asked the parents what we were doing, and the dad said we were hiking, and then the question was asked "is there a trail around here?"
Then, the wife asked "Is there a Circuit City around here???", which was hilarious.
On that hike, we went to the left on what is probably now Quaker Hill Road, but the development was still under construction at the time. The trail had gone into the woods at the end of it, into what is now William Penn State Forest.
The blazes no longer turned on that road this time. They continued straight on Buck Hollow Road. I had not seen a new guide, and so we would have to go with whatever we saw as we walked.
I had never walked the road section that the trail had been routed on ahead, so all of this was new to me.
There was an historic stone home on the slope to the right, which the 1876 atlas seems to show was once the Moyer farm.
We had some good views of the pond on Beaver Run to the left of us as well.
There were some pretty barn views off to the left after the pond, and the road headed into a nice area of trees ahead.
Pretty soon, we could see John coming in the distance, walking toward us. He had started from the other side, and was walking toward us after having walked some of the trails at Birdsboro Waters.
The meeting point and end point can be a bit confusing because the old road we had met on used to be a through route, and it's easy for people to head to the wrong side of the closure. John did just that, headed to the wrong parking area to meet us.
He figured we were walking from that way, and misunderstood a bit, so I had to direct him to how he was going to catch up with us.
He made his way through woods and along some rough trails to make his way out to the west side of the preserve, then on the HST route up the road.
We passed by some pretty scenery, and then came to a rather open area with a scenic old farm across a wide grass field flood plain to the left.
The historic Atlas maps showed this was the farm of Isaac Sleichter in the late 1800s. The house was reportedly built in 1770 however.
We continued down the road just a bit more, and there was a small stream that passed beneath. Just after that, we came to the parking area for William Penn State Forest to the right. This was where the Horse-Shoe Trail turns off of the road to head eastbound.
It looked like a fairly nice woods road ascending. We would not be following that trail any further on this day.
The route looks as though it ascends for a just a bit, and then intersects the older route I'd followed in the past at an old woods road further up the hill.
I'll have one of the future hikes start at this point on the Horse-Shoe Trail heading into French Creek State Park, maybe when the weather gets a bit warmer. It's getting to the point where there might be some swim spots and such, and so the hikes will be a bit better for it.
We continued along the road to the east for a bit more, and soon passed by another scenic old stone farm house and large barn on the slope to the right.
The 1876 Atlas Map of the area showed this as the farm at J. Rhoudes.
We continued walking on from here, and there were more homes on the left. Some were newer, but some were appearing much older.
One particular handsome stone house and barn was shown on the 1876 Atlas being owned by an M. Beard.
At this point, we were entering the little settlement known as Scarlets Mills, part of Robeson Township.
The settlement is so named for John J. Scarlet and his heirs who milled and farmed on the Hay Creek from the early 1700s.
The area was also known as White Bear, for the nearby White Bear Tavern erected in 1724. It still stands nearby as a private residence.
It may be because of the post office arrival in 1869 that the settlement came to be known as Scarlets Mills rather than White Bear, to avoid confusion with other similarly named southeast Pennsylvania taverns.
When the Wilmington and Reading Railroad was developed across the creek to the east, the station stop was named "White Bear". The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad discontinued the station stop in 1955.
The sleepy little settlement remains a little trafficked step back in time today. The railroad was abandoned about 1976. The closure of Hay Creek Road after a major washout in 1987, as well as recent closure of Rock Hollow Road bridge, ensures that the place remains pretty quiet.
We made our way past some very nice homes to the corner. On the right side of the intersection with Hay Creek Road was a handsome old stone house, which the 1876 atlas refers to as the Coleman home.
We turned left at this intersection past some more homes and a nice farm. We then crossed over the Hay Creek.
Just upstream on the Hay Creek, the railroad used to cross over. We could barely see the bridge from this angle, but when we got to the other side, we could see the grade much more obviously.
Historically, this was a station stop known as White Bear in Robeson Township, Berks County. It really doesn't look like much today if you don't know what you're looking for.
How exactly they decided on White Bear rather than Scarlet's Mills, when John J. Scarlet and his heirs milled and farmed on the Hay Creek from the early 1700s, I don't know. I guess even then taverns were important.
Some say the home along Hay Creek to the right of where we were walking is the modified old station, moved across the street from its original location, but others say it is now a different private home nearby.
The line became the Wilmington and Northern through reorganization and extended from the Reading main line to the north, near the city of Reading, and south to Coatesville.
The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad took ownership about 1900, and it became the W&N Branch.
I think I recall reading that the house on the left side of the crossing that still stands today was once a post office. The station stood along the tracks there.
I had hiked though on this line once before, on the very last hike I did with my buddy Kyle Zalinsky back in 2010. He had to cut out early on that one to go to a play, and I continued on with the others.
It ended up being pretty rough in sections trying to follow this right of way. With the exception of one bit just north of JoAnna PA, we walked just about the entire right of way in the past as far as Elverson. From there, we traced the Reading line to the east, and I still haven't covered any of it to the south.
As I continue to trace all of these other obscure lines through the area, I'll probably have to get around to doing this one all the way through. Afterall, I'll have done the lines through Reading plus the Main Line of Public Works it connects to.
We continued past the house that I think was the post office, and just beyond it, we could see the concrete bridge that carried the rail line across Hay Creek.
The right of way heading south on Google Maps is shown as Lloyd Lane, and the Horse-Shoe Trail crosses it on an extant old bridge.
We passed the intersection with White Bear Road, and continued on Hay Creek Road. The railroad used to cross the road just to the north a short distance and paralleled the creek on the north side.
We continued ahead on the road with some nice creek scenery, passed a few homes, and then jogged to the left a bit where Mullen Hollow Road turned off to the right.
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| Pre 1955 White Bear Station |
On the left, Rock Hollow Road broke off, and the bridge over the Hay Creek was closed, so we passed very little traffic of any kind from here on out.
The railroad bed moved off farther away from the creek at this point. We continued on Hay Creek Road in a wooded setting heading northeast.
We passed a lovely farmstead on the right, which the 1876 Reading Publishing Company Atlas of Berks County shows as the farm of S. Snavely.
We passed an area with limited parking on the left, and an old stone home on the right.
It was reportedly built in 1880, along Hay Creek Road, between Birdsboro and Scarlets Mills.
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| Pre 1976 |
This building was reportedly the "White Bear Tavern" in more recent years, purchased by Lewis and Alie Dengler in 1931, but it could not have been the original one to have carried that name.
The 1876 Reading Publishing Company Atlas shows an original White Bear Tavern was located to the west, near the center of the settlement, just south of where we turned off of Buck Hollow Road. The tavern would have been along Hay Creek just south of there.
Many people commented corroborating that this was in fact a tavern until somewhat recent years, when the road was closed off.
We continued on down the road and passed the very last private home on the left. From there, we could occasionally see the old rail grad through the trees in the bank along the far bank.
It wasn't much farther until we got to the parking spot and back to our cars. I could see somewhat washed out rail bed across the street from the lot, at the point where the road is closed off.
I got a ride back to my car with Diane, and Dave got John back to his car over on the Birdsboro side to close out another fun day.
At this point, we have followed the Horse-Shoe Trail to the edge of the collection of properties known as the "Hopewell Big Woods". There are so many trails within this vicinity, I foresee months of stuff just in these parks, and some of them might be more swim appropriate, so we can continue them through Summer.
From this point, the trails at Birdsboro Waters will have to be part of our series, in addition to the Horse-Shoe Trail, the rail bed, and connecting more to the Schuylkill River Trail.
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