Yellow Trail/Canyonwood Trail (0.66 miles in and out)
(Access trail that dead ends in Canyonwood so you need to retrace your steps.)
On 01/02/2025 I painted this Canyonwood Trail yellow (I let Jane choose the color she wanted it) because it was hard to find the start of it and in a few places, it was hard to stay on the trail without getting lost. Following this yellow trail will lead you to a gate that opens into the Canyonwood common space neighborhood. You must realize that if you take this trail, it dead ends at the gate so you have to retrace your steps back out the way you came in. This trial is a third of a mile to the gate and a third of a mile out whether you take the high paths or the low paths as they all lead you into the same place and lead you back out to the same place.
Retracing your steps is not entirely true as there are two or more places where the trail divides and it doesn't matter which trail you take as they all lead to that gate in the end. That means, you can take one trail in, and another part of the loop trail out. Sometimes I think of the old song that goes, "I'll take the high road, and you take the low road, and I'll get there before you...." haha I'm guessing this trail precedes both Headwaters and Cannonwood so might have been a cattle path back to the barnyard of milking cows followed it home to get milked.
We did run into a Canyonwood resident who was unaware of HW trails as she just walked circles on this trail until she got her three miles in and headed back to her home in Canyonwood.
Retracing your steps is not entirely true as there are two or more places where the trail divides and it doesn't matter which trail you take as they all lead to that gate in the end. That means, you can take one trail in, and another part of the loop trail out. Sometimes I think of the old song that goes, "I'll take the high road, and you take the low road, and I'll get there before you...." haha I'm guessing this trail precedes both Headwaters and Cannonwood so might have been a cattle path back to the barnyard of milking cows followed it home to get milked.
We did run into a Canyonwood resident who was unaware of HW trails as she just walked circles on this trail until she got her three miles in and headed back to her home in Canyonwood.
