Lots of interconnected trails

Three Meadow Trail does indeed traverse three small meadows, but the start is quite shady.

User: Austin Explorer - 8/20/2016

Location: Maxwell Farms Regional Park

Rating: 2stars

Difficulty: 2stars

Solitude:

Miles Hiked: 3.48 Miles Elapsed Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Comments:

Coppertone and I weren't entirely sure about the trails here. We suspected there was not much to do and we had heard some rumors about homeless emcampments out back. But we pass by here too often not to give it a go.

The terrain is flat and easy to navigate with some mix of small open meadows and tree cover. Markers for the official trails were useful, but we were a bit perplexed by the numerous additional paths recently ploughed into the soil that were not on the official park map. We're not sure what they're up to with those.

We saw no homeless and never once felt like the area was a dangerous place. There were plenty of people using the nearby soccer fields and a sprinkling of walkers and a couple of bicyclists using the trails. One lady was foraging for blackberries on the bushes bearing fruit.

There's a paved path around the main soccer field which we passed on for this trip. We'd already amassed about 3.5 files and the temperature was starting to rise.

It's not really a destination park worthy of a drive from across the county, but still worth the visit if you're in the area for getting some easy mileage in.

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