Another Beautiful Adirondack Day

We did an interesting explore today.  We drove 4.8 miles down the road in Massawepie, as directed by the entry for the Massawepie Mire hike on the Tupper Lake webpage, turned right, drove another 0.2 mile and parked on the right near the gate to the old railroad grade.  That is the beginning of a 5-mile trail through various habitats, primarily the huge bog, though there are more trees at that end of the bog than where we were a couple of weeks ago.  The trail looked pretty good near the beginning, so took the bikes off the car and started off.


Unfortunately, what the trail description did not tell us was that in many places the railroad ties are still in place.


We rode a bit further, trying to ride along the side, which was too wet in places.


After only about a mile we gave up, parked the bikes along the trail, and started walking, not that walking along unevenly spaced railroad ties is much fun either.  About one and a half miles from the beginning we reached the bridge across the Grass River.


The trail after that was greatly improved with no ties and not too soft for bikes.  And the bunchberry plants (Cornus canadensis) were prolific in spots.


We only walked about another quarter mile before turning around.  From the satellite view in google maps it looks as though you should be able to enter the trail from the other end off Route 3, near Grass River Flow.  We will explore that another day.