So to find new places to go for the Georgetown Running Club 2020
Summer Tour, I used Google Maps and started spiraling out from where I lived to
see what parks I might’ve overlooked. I
came across Trailhead Park, which looked like it would be pretty good. I’d just have to make a turn off of 620, go
past a housing development, and the access point would be there on the
left. Not only did I recognize the
neighborhood for taking a step-child over to a birthday party ten years ago,
but I recognized the corner at 620 were my car’s engine blew up a decade before
that. Just a little bit of interesting
context there.
Trailhead Park looks like it’s a small sports park with a few
pavilions, so chances are if you drove past it you’d overlook it. One needs to go on the other side of the
sports field to find where the actual trail begins. While it starts paved, it switches to packed
dirt and rock soon enough. There’s some
rock stairs and slopes as you go behind some houses and drop in elevation to
reach the main part of the trail. That
main path follows a creek, which was mostly dry. There’s also some sewer vents along the way,
so you’ll notice a particular smell here and there (which also means not a lot
of animals).
There’s one or two small bridges over some side streams as you get
deeper into the path. The trail is
shaped like a reversed “J” which starts to curve back when it comes upon a rock
wall and a preserve. The curve-back part
goes up a steep hill with no shade, and deposits you at a neighborhood cul-de-sac. I did the main portion of the trail on this
trip, but I did notice a number of side trails, which I’ll come back and hit on
later visits.
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