Moses Cone Memorial Park

Saturday's forecast called for gorgeous weather so we took our first hiking trip of 2010. Our destination was Moses Cone Memorial Park, a place we had hiked once before in autumn. It's early spring with bright green leaves popping out on trees around my house but spring is just now sticking a toe in the door up on the parkway. As we drove up, we could see damage from the heavy ice the Boone/Blowing Rock area endured for a good portion of the winter. Many trees had jagged light brown spikes at the tops where limbs had broken under the weight of the ice. Small branches and pine cones littered the carriage trails we walked.



Our chosen route took us from Flat Top Manor to Bass Lake and back again. The girls were delighted to see the manor in the distance from different vantage points.




We walked long enough for the girls to get tired.





The trails at Moses Cone are popular horse trails and the weather was perfect so we saw several beautiful horses. Other than horses and dogs, we didn't see much wildlife just some waterfowl.



We're thinking about heading back to the parkway and Cone Park in a couple weeks to walk "The Maze" and visit the Apple Barn.