The Upper Green Trail
(the trail with the most ups & downs, and parallels Little Barten Creek at the lower end by the Elementary School access road, Mira Vista Road)
The Upper Green Trail is 0.88 miles from HW Upper Round-a-bout to Mira Vista Road (off HW Lower Round-a-bout)
That makes the total Green marked trails 2.37 miles.
Remember to step off the trail for mountain bikers as they pass. The mountain bikers build all the colored trails, and they maintain the trails (not our HOA).
The breakdown of the 0.88 miles: Starting on Mira Vista Road by bridge over Little Barten Creek, it's 0.22 miles to be under the highlines, another 0.18 miles you'll see a red marked trail going off to the west but continue following the green marks on rocks or trees, another 0.03 miles takes you under the highlines again for 0.08 miles where the path turns left (away from the highlines) up a steep jeep road for 0.05 miles (here's an opportunity to continue following the jeep road to the upper Mulch Trail near the HOA trail to Townes Crt. from HWBLVD), the green trail goes right now for 0.18 miles where you cross a ditch at a low spot on the trail, in another 0.09 miles you'll cross a 2nd low spot before ascending 0.09 miles up a steep hill to HW upper round-a-bout.
The Upper Green Trail is cool as it connects from HW upper round-a-bout (under the highlines) to the HW Elementary School Road (Mira Vista Drive off the lower HW round-a-bout) through several woods, several going up and down hills, and several habitats. The lower part of this trail is where I placed my field camera to film the wild pigs (who were the opposite of threatening and you can see these videos on this same website under the heading Field Camera Photos/Videos) as it's close to the Little Barten Creek that sometime flows, during the rainy seasons, with waterfalls.
There is a Red Trail off this Green Trail but stay on the Green Trail (unless you're curious like we were once and got lost on that Red Trail and took an undesirable shortcut back to the Green Trail).
The Upper Green Trail will follow under highlines for a while and at the top of the hill climb from the highline part, one can go straight and end up near the HOA Townes Crt trail (if you are in a hurry to get off the Upper Green Trail).
I admire the Upper Green Trail for its variety of ecosystems and how often you ascend and then descent again into cool woods, and again.
Most people combine all these different trails to make a series of convenient loop for themselves. An example is that we call this our 3-mile route that includes the HOA trail from Tierra Trail up to and over Homestead Park coming out by Townes Crt, and then at the end of Townes Crt the HOA Townes Crt trail to HWBLVD, then crossing HWBLVD to the HOA Mulch Road Trail (HOA calls it Skyline Trail) and down the Mulch Road Trail to the HW Elementary School Road Entrance/Exit Road (Mira Vista Drive), then back up the Upper Green Trail to our upper round-a-bout, then past HW Upper Playground to the HW Dog Park, then down the hill on the Upper Red Route to the Roy Branch Road Bridge and then we go our separate ways home from there. There are literally dozens of combinations of these trails to make life more adventurous and interesting.
There is a Red Trail off this Green Trail but stay on the Green Trail (unless you're curious like we were once and got lost on that Red Trail and took an undesirable shortcut back to the Green Trail).
The Upper Green Trail will follow under highlines for a while and at the top of the hill climb from the highline part, one can go straight and end up near the HOA Townes Crt trail (if you are in a hurry to get off the Upper Green Trail).
I admire the Upper Green Trail for its variety of ecosystems and how often you ascend and then descent again into cool woods, and again.
Most people combine all these different trails to make a series of convenient loop for themselves. An example is that we call this our 3-mile route that includes the HOA trail from Tierra Trail up to and over Homestead Park coming out by Townes Crt, and then at the end of Townes Crt the HOA Townes Crt trail to HWBLVD, then crossing HWBLVD to the HOA Mulch Road Trail (HOA calls it Skyline Trail) and down the Mulch Road Trail to the HW Elementary School Road Entrance/Exit Road (Mira Vista Drive), then back up the Upper Green Trail to our upper round-a-bout, then past HW Upper Playground to the HW Dog Park, then down the hill on the Upper Red Route to the Roy Branch Road Bridge and then we go our separate ways home from there. There are literally dozens of combinations of these trails to make life more adventurous and interesting.
