Community Trips
5 Mile hike at Merchants Millpond State Park
Mother's Day 2011Upon my wife wishes (Mother Day), we traveled about an hour from Va. Beach to Merchant Millpond. Very light rain had fallen that morning and the Sun finally peeked out; off we went! Just missed a black snake catching a tree frog up in the branches on the Cypress Point trail. (Clockwise) Trail splits at aprox. 0.25 mile from lot. Coleman trail has fire trails that bisect it, but lead no...
My wife and I hiked here this past Spring on an eventful outing when we encountered a extremely aggressive cottonmouth. Needless to say "No Shoulders" wouldn't keep us at bay!We wanted some Fall swamp pictures and Merchant Mill pond was fairly close to home. Right after we got out of the truck, we walked over to the restrooms and saw a memorial stone of an area veteran. I looked at my watch and...
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