Talk:Knobstone Trail

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I am walking the Knobstone Trail on the Installemnt plan. Detail maps and information are available directly from Indiana DNR Website [Knobstone Trail]. The online maps are identical to the map sold at DNR offices but I recomend you spend the $4 and have a really nice hard copy of the map while hiking.

I am a novice hiker so much of what I say might sound humorous to the experienced but my primary goal is to lose weight and control my type 2 Diabetes and that is coming along nicely.

I have a page about my experiences [www.967andy.com/Knobstone-Trail.html]. I have completed two sections and was rained out midway through the longest section of the trail, New Chapel Trail Head to Jackson Rd Trail Head.

If you are a novice and want to walk the southern most section, Jackson Rd to Deam Lake Trail Heads, I recommend starting at Jackson Rd Trail Head and hiking to Deam lake. You get the worst of the hills out of the way early and the last four miles for the most part is a gentle down grade, with the exception of one steep portion.

The trail is well marked with white blazes on trees and mile marker posts. The blazes are white paint on the trunks of trees and if you see two blazes, that means a change is coming, either a turn or a crossing, etc.

A really nice out and back hike is to park at Deam lake Trail Head and walk to whichever mile marker you wish and return. The terrain is pretty gentle up to the four Mile Marker and then it gets very steep. Jackson Road Trail Head is located between the Five and Six Mile Markers.

A couple of tips. Just because its called Jackson Road Trail head, doesn't mean it is actually on Jackson Road. The parking lot is located off of Hilltop Road which turns off of Bartle Knob Road at the top of Bartle Knob. The parking lot is located on a hill top above the Knobstone trail so you have to walk down a horse trail to the Knobstone Trail and where the trail turns is easy to miss the first time out. Basically when you get to the bottom of the hill, turn right for Deam Lake and left for Chapel Hill. If you continue on the horse trail, you will end up at Mountain Grove Road Cemetary near the truck stops at the Memphis, IN exit of I-65.

Steamboatin (talk) 12:26, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

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