As our days in social distancing extend in number, I'm looking for ways to find something new or interesting. Often this is online. I feel like I've hit the jackpot when I see a really funny joke. (I can recommend the comic strip 'Pearls Before Swine.') Since so much of what we see, we have already seen, it gets trickier to think of some new aspect to mundane things.
The best escape is going out, I find. Thankfully it's spring so the usual walking paths are changing a lot. It's always nice to try a new place for walking and I often take photos of flowers, reptiles or moths to try to identify at home. Ringneck snakes are my new favorite - so cute, completely harmless.
Uliana asked that I put together a list of good walking places nearby, since I've done a fair bit of hiking locally. Here are 3 categories, which will increase in difficulty but all are 3 miles or less. I will include only things that I know are open now.
Paved, flat places to walk
Coker Arboretum on UNC campus
Bolin Creek trail at the Chapel Hill community center - also the rose garden there
Southern Community Park at Southern Village - walk around the soccer fields
Jones Creek Greenway - the paved path starts at the back of the parking lot of Morris Grove Elementary on Eubanks Road
Morgan Creek Trailhead - off highway 54 west of Columbia St/15-501
Homestead Park - off MLK blvd and Homestead Road
Hillsborough River Walk - start at Weaver St. Market parking
Fairly flat, wooded trails
Anderson Park in Carrboro - this is a very short walk around the pond
Bramley Forest North - off highway 10 in Durham
Saxapahaw Island Park - in the Haw River at Saxapahaw
Occoneechee Speedway trail - near the intersection of highways 70 and 86 in Hillsborough
Medium hiking trails, has some steep ups and downs (dress for tick prevention!!)
Wilson Park in Carrboro - this is where I go most often these days
North Carolina Botanical Garden trails - behind the center, which is closed
Battle Branch trail - on the opposite side from Bolin Creek trail at the CH community center
Hollow Rock Nature Park - off Erwin Road in CH near Pickett Road
Saxapahaw River trail - accessed just behind the Haw River ballroom
Duke Forest trails off Whitfield Road - these can be long and challenging
Haw River access - off 15-501 as you drive toward Pittsboro, on right just after Moore Mountain Rd
What great places do you know for walking/hiking?
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