Brushy Creek Single Track (Cedar Park, TX) – July 2020

 I freely admit that I’d been to Brushy Creek Park so many times I know the main trail like the back of my hand.  But that’s just the main trail, and there’s a lot of side areas to check out.  Some of these are billed as “bike routes” but there’s no reason you can’t walk them.  It’s not like you won’t hear the bikes coming, and since you’re moving slower, you’re the one that just needs to get out of the way.  With that bit of common sense, I checked out this section as part of the Georgetown Running Club’s 2020 Summer Tour.

 Now first I started doing the trail closest to the YMCA camp which took you by the overlook of the lake, and then it wound its way through a lot of scrub and sparse tree cover, which really wasn’t all that interesting.  There were a few bike jumps here and there, but it didn’t feel like a “nature walk” to me.

 Since I’d parked at the 183A bridge entrance (and resupplied by water), I went east on the paved trail until I found the entrance to the “Big Loop” trail.  I took a picture of the trail map so I could use that for navigation purposes.  As you could see, the plan was by the time I exited the “Big Loop” I’d be back near where I’d parked.

 On this there was some elevation change, as it placed you on the rim overlooking the main paved trail, and then went off on its own section.  I liked the gorge at the end of the trail, which I considered to be a nice reward.  Even at a placed I’d been to a lot, it was still nice to find something new.