Frank Morgan

This morning I found the Sara Tenney loop to complete my favorite RRR Brooks Trail. The trail heads right off Bee Hill Road, just past a bridge, about a block above where it forks right off Routes 2/7 South out of Williamstown.

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You follow a stream for a while:

It’s in pretty good shape, though there are some trees down:

Then you head up into the pines:

And finally emerge into a meadow:

From where you can hear and barely see Route 2 to the left:

Continuing on into the forest, you come onto a dirt road with Route 2 a block to the left and the RRR Brooks Trail you just took marked as well:

Instead you go right and follow the trail out of the forest, into a pasture, and up a hill (stay left at two forks):

Although poorly marked, this is the Sara Tenney trail, which descends into the pines to a signed intersection:

You continue towards Flora Glen to the bottom of the Sara Tenney Trail on RRR Brooks, close to where you started:

The whole loop is about four miles and takes under two hours. I did it in an hour and a quarter, but I move pretty fast and don’t take water or rest stops.