Pfluger City Park, Gilleland Creek, and Bohl’s Park (Pflugerville, TX) – June 2020

 It had rained hard this morning when I went out to head to another place as part of the Georgetown Running Club’s 2020 Summer Tour.  Now I’d been to Pfluger City Park before to do some 5k races (usually for Pflugerville Pets Alive), and I had geocached along Gilleland Creek before.  There’s a lot of territory for Pfluger City Park, and since it was overcast when I arrived (parking right off of Railroad Ave), I headed west to where the area would be very open (and no shade).  Gilleland Creek was swollen, so it spilled over the trail in a few places.  One of the bridges I went over was only an inch before the water went over that too.

 I followed the trail up to about Pfenning Lane, as by that time the cloud had cleared and the sun was beating down on me.  The trail continued on, and I noted that so I could come back another time to complete it.  Back at Pfluger City Park I took a picture of the veteran’s memorial, and then followed Gilleland Creek downstream.  The section of the trail which went under Railroad Ave was flooded, so I just walked across the road to pick the path back up.

 This section had some shade, and then went under the intersection of 685 and Pecan Street, which brought me technically to Bohl’s Park.  A short distance beyond that I got an amusing chuckle on an unfinished intersection.  That’s not uncommon as areas are developed.  But they generally don’t have a stop sign coming from the unfinished section.  One interesting bit was finding a historical sign about the bottling plant which existed there around the early 20^th Century.  Nice little find, but only visible from the trail, not the street were the passing motorist wouldn’t see it.