2022-3-20, Turnip Top and Salisbury School, Salisbury, CT

 On 2022-3-20, I visited the Turnip Top and Salisbury School area in Salisbury, CT.  I made an interactive map with location numbers.  Here's a link to the interactive map: https://arcg.is/LP1Xf .

Here's a screen shot of the interactive map.



1.  I parked in a pull-off that might fit five cars if the cars were carefully parked.

2.  I walked from the pull-off onto well-maintained woods roads that led to what appeared to be a Salisbury School driving range.



3.  There were lots of tall white pines along the woods roads.



4.  The woods roads appeared to be used by Salisbury School for cross-country running races.



5.  A nicely cleared woods roads.



6.  Sections of the woods roads had been covered with wood chips.




7.  Although the woods roads were mostly on Town of Salisbury property, it looked like Salisbury School was maintaining the woods roads.  At the north end of the driving range, there were piles of woods chips that may have been the source of the wood chips that had been put on the woods roads.




8.  A narrow trail led off a woods road to this defunct bridge.  I walked on rocks to cross the stream.



9.  The stream appeared to run over limestone.




Near 9.



10.  The trail led across a gravel road to a set of trails blazed with metal blazes.  The trails appeared to be used by, and set up for, mountain bikers.




11.  There were lots of rock formations along the mountain bike trails.



12.  A large white pine and a Appalachian Trail-style shelter.




13.  A view of Washinee Lake, one of the Twin Lakes.



12.  A plaque on the lean-to.  The mountain bike trails, and the lean-to, were on Salisbury School property.



14.  I went back across the gravel road to Town of Salisbury property and the woods roads.  There was evidence of heavy-duty maintenance.



15.  These painted rocks were more evidence that the woods roads were used for cross-country races.  I've seen obstacles painted with bright paint on courses for high school cross-country races before.



16.  Cliffs on the side of a knob called Turnip Top.  I found no trails to the top of Turnip Top.  A writer on AllTrails.com wrote that there was no view from the top of Turnip Top.
















David Reik

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