I’m looking more into the doubletrack off the end of Everwood Dr, and it looks like at one point it was an official trail? Does anyone know anything about the Minister Hill Trail? Perhaps @supercraig ?
I lived on Eastwind for 15 years and hiked and rode that often. @tossedsalad had Ministers Hill in his book back in the day. @Ghost has been connecting it up with the moto trails on the other side of the highway. Good fun!
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I’ve heard about the moto trail connecter, from what I understand that trail was the first in the moto trail network. Do you happen to have a scan of the book? All the links on here for it seem to be dead. I managed to make a loop the other day of riding up from Hubley along the rails-trails to Eider drive, through Stillwater Lake, across to Highland Park, through the Pockwock logging roads to Westwood, Westwood to Bowater, Bowater to the rails-trails, and back to Hubley along the rails-trails. Good 20-30km long mix of doubletrack, logging roads, and crusher dust.
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Looks like it is on trailforks:
https://www.trailforks.com/trails/minister-hill-trail/
Thats what tipped me off to it being an official trail
I rode this trial all the time as a kid around 2001, things have probably changed but you should be able to get from Exit4 on the 103 to the Hammonds planes road.
Highland park connects in a few places near camp hill lake but I always started from Brighton and never really explored the connections to Highland park because the trials looked like they went to back yards but you can probably find something.
Back then half of it was old logging road and half was narrow mud/roots. We always came across a huge sawdust pile near a Maple Lake on the way through.
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Yeah, these days it takes you from Eider Drive to HPR. I’ve only been on the muddy/rooty half which has been made almost unrideable by ATV traffic. I think that the sawdust pile has almost entirely decomposed.
Lol I was pedaling though puddles so deep my kneed didn’t come out of the water 20 years ago so I guess not much changed. We eventually found some alternate routes that avoided the parts of the trail that flood.
The sawdust pile was from a logging operation a very very long time ago. I am sure you can still find it. When you do if you look around you should find the remains of a saw mill.
The flooded part is still flooded haha, the way around also still exists