hellertown adventure

Just got back from our adventure in Hellertown. Who knew the rail trail could be an adventure?

We parked at the Water Street trailhead and decided to walk to toward Bethlehem. Eventually that will connect with the Greenway. But now it doesn't. It only goes about a half mile. However, running next to the rail trail is another trail that goes into the woods. We turned at the end of the rail trail and walked back to the entrance to the woods and followed that.

It began wide, got narrower, and narrower, and soon it was not much more than a deer path that followed the Saucon Creek. It came out on a road with a closed bridge. We crossed the bridge (it was double barricaded!) and looked for a trail going back, but there was none.  We recrossed the bridge, and headed back toward the park. It was then we noticed the trail split, so we took the road less taken and that ultimately looped around and back to the original trail.

It was little like playing hide and seek. It took over an hour and we were just shy of 3 miles.