3-3/4 miles at lehigh parkway

Bonnie and I decided to walk this morning. But we wanted someplace a little shady. The sun is intense. We chose The Parkway.

Knowing the entrance from Jefferson Street was closed, we chose to use the Vultee Street entrance as suggested. Only problem is we've only exited from there. After multiple dead ends, we turned around and headed to Bogart's Bridge. On a happy note, we found the entrance to the Mack Truck museum. So when I take the boys I can look all cool, like I know where I'm going.

We parked at the covered bridge and started on the sunnier side of the park. It was sunny, but there were enough periods of shade that it wasn't unbearable. When we arrived at the Jefferson Street entrance road we started looking for the wall collapse. It's actually not on the road, but on the trail below it. It's a small circle that's about a mile long.

(Also close was the super steep incline under Oxford Street. Up or down, that's a bear.) 

Since the trail was sunny heading into the park, we walked down the closed road in the shade. Then under the iron bridge to pick up the trail again. It wasn't long until we were in the nice shady woods. And remained there until we were nearly back at the bridge.

It's nice walking here on a week day. A few joggers and a few fishermen. Otherwise the park was empty.

(Sadly I probably have 50 pixs of this bridge. Could I find one? No. Could I find every other covered bridge in the greater Lehigh Valley? Yes.  Ultimately, I had to borrow one from Wikepedia.)