Twilight and Greenhorn Trails @ Prescott Park

April 29, 2017

We headed out early to hike at Prescott Park today where we hiked a newly named old-new trail and a newly named new-new trail.

The new Prescott Park Trail System logo

Confused.  We started by hiking the "Nameless" trail that we have mentioned in a couple of past postings and have hiked twice before.  That trail, starting at the first gate, is now called the "Twilight Trail" and has signage at the trailhead showing who can use the trail (hikers, bikers, horses), mileage to connecting trails (if built), and a trail rating of how hard it is (easy, moderate, difficult).

Twilight TH sign

The Twilight trail is 4.3 miles long and takes you around Roxy Ann and eventually puts you on the loop road. It passes through various types of landscapes, each with numerous varieties of wildflowers.

Katie's least favorite wildflower, Cat's Ear

Balsamroot

Once at the loop road, we turned left and hiked the loop road past the rock quarry till we came upon another trailhead sign for the "Greenhorn Trail".  We had seen this trail our last hike here, but there was no info on where the trail went or how long the trail was.  Now that signage and info is listed.  As a matter of fact, there are now large map postings all around Prescott Park that show the new trails as well as the proposed 3 trails to be built in May 2017.

The Greenhorn trail switch-backed us down to where our car was parked, so it was a nice way to finish our hike of 6.1 miles. When we did get done, there were parked cars all the way from the gate back to the power plant area -- for those of you not familiar with Prescott Park, that is quite a few cars -- maybe 60-70?  So join the crowd (or go early and beat the crowd) and get out to Prescott Park to try some of the new-new and old-new trails instead of hiking the loop road.  The wildflowers await you!

Trekking Together
Glenn and Carol