11-4-12 Distillery Road Conservation Area - Boone County

Wilma and I have hiked here before. Its a nice walk. The district's web site says it is closed as of November 1, but the gate was open and there was no posting at the site. My guess is that by closed they mean they won't be plowing and might leave the gate locked once it snows. Hard to tell. Maybe I will email and ask, although as always, getting responses to emails from government employees can be very spotty.

It looks like they posted new trail maps out on the trails. In some respects they are somewhat better then the brochure map. I am pretty sure the dashed line that more or less shadows the river is the power lines and the trails actually go under it a couple of times and it is not shown that way. The brochure map is not real accurate either. But, they suffice for finding one's way around, and the ones posted on the trail are good for getting you from segment to segment.

This is the map posted along the trails.

Our route as tracked by GPS.

The map I scanned from their brochure and added the northern power lines to.

Wilma and I looked around at what I thought was a canoe camping area along the river below the abandoned pit toilets for a canoe landing area, but never found it. Maybe the canoe camping areas are not accessible from inside the park.

The only critter of note we saw was a dead possum on the trail.

Short video. The highlights of course, are the clips of the creek beagle in the river.