1-14-12 Rock Cut State Park Willow Creek

We parked at the dam and walked mostly along the Willow Creek Path down to Perryville Road, with a side excursion up the hill on the north side of the path. The arrow is where we saw the downed tree.

The snow from the other day made everything pretty. We ran across this downed tree on the side trail we took.

Willow Creek.

It was about 15F out, not much wind. A nice winter hiking day. We did 3.2 miles according to Base Camp. Took us 110 minutes. It is slow going up and down the hill, and on the snow and ice.

We got back to the parking lot by the dam to find a DNR guy there, who told us we had to be out by 5. It was already a few minutes after 5. I am a repeat offender on being in the park a few minutes after 5. I did it once last winter too.

We did not run across many people there. A couple joggers and two dogs who brought their humans out for a nice walk. As we were headed back to the parking lot we ran across two skiers who were skiing along the paved path. They said they parked outside the gate so they would not get locked in.