September 5, 2020 was a beautiful Saturday so Kate, Wesley, and I headed out to Bridgton, Maine to take a hike at Pondicherry park trails. The park itself is 66 acres of woodlands and streams right off downtown Bridgton.
We went to park off Depot St in the parking area at the trail head but at route we took brought us in the back way where the road is closed for outside dining and the farmers market. We parked at the old school where they built a skate park.
It's really a beautiful trail system, with six trails totaling 2.3 miles. There are also a couple bridges and a very long and very nice boardwalk that we never would have found had Wesley not asked us to take the black stairs that go down from the covered bridge.
We started at the trail head crossing the Bob Dunning Memorial Bridge, a wooden covered bridge. We followed the Pondicherry Loop trail over to the Ham Foundation Bridge and than back around the loop to the Bob Dunning Memorial Bridge again. We took the spiral stairs down to the Stevens Brook Trail which had the boardwalk.
I can't express house how beautiful it was here and we want to comeback and do more of the trails.
After our hike we stopped at the McDonald's to get our boy some nuggets for lunch and then we drove up to Bethel to get ourselves some Smokin' Good BBQ! Kate got her pork sundae and I got the Texas beef brisket, so damn good!
We took a few mile detour when we saw a pick your own apple sign and stopped at Gibson's Apple Orchard in Bethel. It's a very nice small orchard and it was their first weekend of the season. Delicious apples too! Kate made an apple pie with some of them, her first of the season, and it was amazing!
Until Next Time!
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