Franklin State Forest

September 15, 2019 Sunny

This is an 843 acre stretch of minimally developed forest, crossed with trails for hiking, mountain biking, and snowshoeing.

We took a roughly 1.3 mile loop trail from eastern side of the forest. The trail had some gentle rises and dips and was narrow, with dense forest on all sides. Most of the trail we hiked looked like the picture below.

The only points of interest we saw were old stone walls at various points, and the trail cut through one of these.

We all caught sight of one deer as well along the path, which was a highlight to this pleasant but not particularly memorable trail.

This park might be better at other times of the year, or for mountain biking, but seemed fairly ordinary for hiking.

Not much variety in this dense forest. We came during a fairly buggy time, which didn’t help.
Boring. It doesn’t seem to get a lot of use.
OK… lots of bugs and mushrooms, which wasn’t great. Just average.
There was a lot of bugs and a stone wall.
I didn’t get much bug bites. There was lots of trees.