The Upper Red Trail 0.58 miles from sidewalk behind Hazy Hills homes by HW Little Library
to Roy Branch Road (short cut from Roy Branch Road to HW Dog Park or Little Library)
The Upper Red trail is covenant for me as I live at 738 Hazy Hills and take common space meadows that I mow to the Roy Branch Bridge and walk up the Upper Red Trail to HW Central (office, gym, pool) as quickly as taking the sidewalk up Hazy Hills. Anyway, the Upper Red Trail switchbacks more than the sidewalk does up the hill so I find the Upper Red Trail easier myself, plus I stay in the woods where the shade is.
Important, walking any of these colored trails is at your own risk as you are in nature, crosses ditches, have many small tree stumps and rocks to trip on, when it rains, you'll find the colored trails follow streams or streams cross the trails, and no one knows what other adventures you'll run across in nature. I carry an old stick that I found along a trail and duck taped together, as my walking stick, to aid in not falling, as I transverse all HW trails. The walking stick comes in handy for spider webs (if we cannot duck under them) and I used to use the stick to drive HW cattle away from the trail as the dogs we walk were going nuts seeing the cattle. (our cattle have been removed apparently currently)
The Upper Red Trail goes from the sidewalk shortcut behind the upper even #'d side of Hazy Hills homes (people take this sidewalk from the upper HW playground to Homestead Park usually) to the Roy Branch Bridge (that takes you to the last phase of HW currently being built with no residents yet but soon to be).
If you walk a dog, like the people I often walk with do, we get on the Upper Red Trail from the left side of HW Dog Park but one kind of slides down the steep bank to get on the Upper Red Trail. (Again, I usually carry a walking stick to keep from falling on all HW trails.)
At the lower end of the Upper Red Trail you can walk under the highlines to the jeep road that takes one up the Big Foot Rock Garden and the Big Foot Trail or Phase 3 Construction Road. I've mowed the grass down there to make the trails easier to use.
When you get to Roy Branch Road, you can follow a blacktop road that takes you to a CrossRoads HW Pumping Station for a short while then go right (east) to cross the Roy Branch Creek (dry 10 months of the year at this part of the creek) and get on the Lower Red Trail that continues following the creek to the River Trail (same creek but flowing now with waterfalls) to the StageCoach Bridge. There is a newly grated HOA trail that parallels the Lower Red Trail and the HOA trail is much easier to walk on and safer, both trails meet where one can cross the stream easily at a narrow section of the stream.
Important, walking any of these colored trails is at your own risk as you are in nature, crosses ditches, have many small tree stumps and rocks to trip on, when it rains, you'll find the colored trails follow streams or streams cross the trails, and no one knows what other adventures you'll run across in nature. I carry an old stick that I found along a trail and duck taped together, as my walking stick, to aid in not falling, as I transverse all HW trails. The walking stick comes in handy for spider webs (if we cannot duck under them) and I used to use the stick to drive HW cattle away from the trail as the dogs we walk were going nuts seeing the cattle. (our cattle have been removed apparently currently)
The Upper Red Trail goes from the sidewalk shortcut behind the upper even #'d side of Hazy Hills homes (people take this sidewalk from the upper HW playground to Homestead Park usually) to the Roy Branch Bridge (that takes you to the last phase of HW currently being built with no residents yet but soon to be).
If you walk a dog, like the people I often walk with do, we get on the Upper Red Trail from the left side of HW Dog Park but one kind of slides down the steep bank to get on the Upper Red Trail. (Again, I usually carry a walking stick to keep from falling on all HW trails.)
At the lower end of the Upper Red Trail you can walk under the highlines to the jeep road that takes one up the Big Foot Rock Garden and the Big Foot Trail or Phase 3 Construction Road. I've mowed the grass down there to make the trails easier to use.
When you get to Roy Branch Road, you can follow a blacktop road that takes you to a CrossRoads HW Pumping Station for a short while then go right (east) to cross the Roy Branch Creek (dry 10 months of the year at this part of the creek) and get on the Lower Red Trail that continues following the creek to the River Trail (same creek but flowing now with waterfalls) to the StageCoach Bridge. There is a newly grated HOA trail that parallels the Lower Red Trail and the HOA trail is much easier to walk on and safer, both trails meet where one can cross the stream easily at a narrow section of the stream.
