[IndianaTrails] CANAL UPDATE -- A walk at Delphi the day after Christmas

[Canal Center]

MONON TRAIL HIKE SET FOR THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS AT 1 PM

 

Get ready to try out those new boots, gloves, coats or whatever you
unwrapped for Christmas.  Delphi Historic Trails will treat you to a hike
along a historic part of east Delphi.  Meet at the Canal Center at 1 pm.
There is  adequate parking at the Center, 1030 North Washington Street -- 11
blocks from the Court House stoplight. 

 

Weather could cause cancellation or just to move indoors for a talk while
looking at maps but the idea of a hike on that day brings out many with
"cabin fever" at Christmas.  Dress warm in layers and be ready to hike
through snow on ungroomed landscape as the group will be treated to a choice
of an easy and a difficult walk.

 

Hikers will board "The Trolley" at the Canal Center (weather permitting) and
be shuttled to the east side of Delphi where the Monon High Bridge Trail
begins.  Similar hikes in the past were organized by the late Charles Gerard
with as many as 85 people attending on this day after Christmas.

 

The mission is to first explore the developed rail trail that skirts the
valley high up on the side north of Deer Creek.  For those that wish to only
walk the easier trail portion and then return to the Center the Trolley will
pick up at the Sherry Mears' farm lane that connects to this isolated scenic
Monon High Bridge route.

 

The hearty hikers may go on to the old trestle and overview Deer Creek from
the exhilarating height once experienced by the train travelers.  Then on
the return circuit the trek will take the remaining hikers on into the
valley via an old farm access tunnel used for livestock and two row
equipment going to the lower field.

 

Exploring the area along Deer Creek will reveal the potential location of
the Hoosier Heartland Highway as it comes into the valley approximately
north-south.  A view first of "Bossard Waterfall" and then "Slate Bluff"
appear just across the creek.  Then hikers encounter the site where the old
mill dam remnants can yet be seen.

 

The trolley will pick up from Indiana 25 at Robinsons Run (or as the Run
used to be called "Gut Crick" because of the slaughterhouse upstream).  Back
in the Center will be hot treats for the hearty hikers.  A response form
will be offered for collecting important feelings about the history of the
valley and the pending new highway.

 

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