A mid week hike is a real treat. Laura and I were feeling the need for some woods time, so we planned to meet at the Fundy Boat launch after work and explore the Oak Trail. There are no specific features on this trail, it is a roughly 1 mile out and back nature walk. The trail begins behind the porta loo, skirts an orange gate and follows the lakeshore for a little ways. The views of the lake between the trees are very pretty and there were a couple places you could dip your toes if you felt like it. Today was extremely humid, so dipping the toes was actually an inviting concept. Laura had her pup Mindy and she took advantage of just that. The trail forked a couple tenths in, with the right fork leading to the lake and the left fork continuing along the Oak Trail. From here until the end it was an easy to follow trail, though unmarked. Definitely a lot less traveled than any other Pawtuckaway trail as we broke through a lot of cobwebs and there was a lot of small debris on the trail. Otherwise the usual rocky, rooty, muddy sort of trail that just meandered around. Nice enough, but nothing outstanding. We were following an online tracker, so I was able to tell when the trail ended, otherwise it would have been difficult to identify as there was no marking. There was a fallen tree with a towel on it right at the spot, but I'm not sure that's anything official. There were also some faded blue blazes, we assumed marked the Pawtuckaway park boundary and the reason the trail just randomly ended in the middle of nowhere. Someone has continued cutting the trail and there was orange flagging, but we didn't follow. Unsure if it was private land or not, or where the trail went. We were also chasing daylight, so we just turned around and headed back. It was very, very buggy and sweaty, so we had no desire to be out any longer. We accomplished what we came for, another trail on my redlining spreadsheet - done.
Strava Activity
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| Start of trail behind Portaloo |
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| Mindy enjoying the water |
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| Mindy enjoying the mud |
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| End of the road, faded blue blazes marking park boundary |
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| I think a coincidence but also a good trail end marker |
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