A little less than an hour from home is
Paris Mountain State Park in Greenville, SC. We recently read about this park, and we spent the morning there enjoying the trails and beautiful fall colors.
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| We took the course marked in red |
We ended up running/jogging/hiking a 7.3 mile loop around Lake Placid, Mountain Creek Trail and Sulphur Springs Trail. With the morning temperature about 15 degrees warmer than Asheville, we think this will be a great alternative for running when our at home temps dip below freezing.
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| Lake Placid |
Although at first we absolutely loved this park, we quickly realized a lot of other people do too. This place is super popular with just about everyone. There were cyclist, hikers, families with kids and dogs, and it got to a point where it seemed like we were constantly stepping to the side off the trail to make way. So with taking the popularity of the park into consideration, we'll probably keep any future trips to middle of the week adventures.
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| one of the coolest bird houses we've ever seen |
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| uhhhh what? |
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| Dam leading up to Mountain Lake |
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| Some of the trails are pretty nice like this one and some are very technical |
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| Still lots of beautiful fall colors |
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| 1400 foot of climbing on this loop |
Happy running!
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