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The outer loop is 0.4 miles and there are several internal paved trails to vary the scenery.

Parking area at trailhead on Pleasant Hill Road in Chester; informational kiosk on site. This trailhead is the start of a straight, flat, 5-mile trail that parallels the Black River and connects Pleasant Hill Road with Randolph’s Horseshoe Lake Recreational Area. Trail is best for mountain bikes rather than road bikes due to many ruts, [...]

The Orange Trail travels through all the ecosystems – meadow, forest, and river gorge  - on easy footing. There is little elevation change around the Center, more elevation changes closer to the Gorge. Starting 600 feet south of the parking area on the Patriots Path, the Orange Trail traverses the meadow, passes a Yellow Trail [...]

The path travels a loop connecting the Orange Trail and Patriots Path. Starting 800 feet from the Orange Trail origin near the entrance road, the trail traverses a meadow, crosses the White Trail junction in 800 feet, then enters the woods. It briefly intersects the Patriots Path and then loops back south, past old stone [...]

The trail starts 0.1 mile north of the parking lot off the Blue Spur, goes through forest to connect twice with Yellow Trail, and affords the opportunity for the shortest loop hike around the Center.

The trail begins 0.5 miles from parking lot kiosk and is unblazed but signed;  in 0.1 mile is a picnic area in a pleasant clearing.

Starting across the bridge from the junction with the red-blazed Riverside Trail 0.4 mile from the parking lot, the trail turns right uphill to connect with the white-blazed Main Trail in 0.1 mile (at the bridge crossing, to the left is a short trail to the top of the waterfall).

The trail starts 0.1 mile west of the parking area, along the park entrance road and is a woods road with gentle grading. It ascends for a short distance and passes a junction with the Pink Trail In 300 feet, then levels out and passes a second junction with the Pink Trail at 0.1 mile. [...]

This trail is the most accessible trail in the Park, leading gently downhill from the parking lot kiosk; it is paved for the first 0.4 mile, and then an easy gravel-dirt surface.   In 150 feet it passes stone stairs to the Riverside Trail, then comes to a junction with the purple-blazed 3 Pools Trail [...]

This trail connects the Riverside and Main trails in the center of the trail system and also connects with the Wintershine Trail at the eastern end.   It gradually ascends 150 feet on a wide gravel path.