Our sunset walk on this night was a new trail for us. It’s called the Beaver Brook Trail. This trail starts at Windy Saddle on Lookout Mountain Road above Golden. It’s only about 1.2 miles long inside this park, but goes for another 6 – 6.5 miles in the neighboring Genesee Mountain Park. Genesee Park is where you can find a herd of Buffalo, too.
This trail is so close to home that I really don’t know how we hadn’t done it already! It offered views starting from the parking lot.
And from one rocky outcropping, we could look eastward and see north Table Mountain in Golden.
Quite a bit of the trail was rocky and yet mountain bikers and trail runners passed us by. Not all of Beaver Brook is open to mountain bikers, which was good because some larger rocks required a little hand up from Andy for me to get over. At 33 weeks pregnant, this trail, with it’s rocks and narrow ledges in spots, was proving more interesting than I expected.
Here’s a shot of Andy on the trail…
Ok, so I didn’t have to climb through that opening like he did…and good thing, I’d probably still be stuck there!
Our timing was perfect that we ended the hike back at the parking lot just in time to sit and watch the sunset.
I can’t wait to try this trail again someday – and maybe come in from Genesee Park the next time.
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