By Tony.The.Tiger in March, 2010
I took my boys (elementary school) on a nice walk last Sunday. It was a nice stretch for your legs. It was early enough in the season that we didn't see insects. Of course it is in a BOG.
The trail was maintained well enough for a nature trail, but there is no way a wheelchair is getting over the Railroad ties in the middle of the path, or a couple of pretty muddy spots. Someone needs to remove that from the description. Otherwise, its a mostly straight and flat and reminds me of a very long arbor.
We never made it to the Meadowbrook end because we decided to take a side trail, 1.5 miles from Lake Ave, that went to Stonybrook. I submitted a photo of the sign-post at the fork (LatLon is an estimate from Google Maps). The side trail goes over a number of new-looking plank walkways and winds its way up the embankment to the road. Only the last couple hundred yards were steep. It wasn't a difficult climb - think Stair-master.
While I we only saw two cars parked on Lake Ave when we arrived, we saw about a 1/2 dozen other people on our way out. We'll be back, too. Though probably not once the bugs start.
T.T.T
By MARILYN in June, 2001
"The trail starts out very nice. However before you get half way through, it gets very over grown and many of the railroad ties are still there making walking very difficult. It is very flat which is nice but it would be very bad for an elderly person or anyone with vision problems. I don't see how you could get through with a wheelchair. The mosquitoes are terrible."