Middletown Rocky Run Trail Parts III & IV (June 23-24/2019)

Sunday, June 23, 2019
Finally found a map for Rocky Run Trail (Middletown, PA), and saw we missed the two ends.
Today we started at Lima Estates, across the street from the Fair Acres high-rise building where we had turned around yesterday.

Rocky Run Trail marker with Lima Estates in the background

Vine-covered dead tree is home to birds

Passed a chicken farm? Ducks, too

Lima Estates has their own natural liquid gases pipeline next door

Remains of a robin's egg

Symplocarpus foetidus/Skunk Cabbage

After fording Rocky Run, the path takes you into Tyler Arboretum
and the east end of Rocky Run Trail

Very tall trees in this area, mostly
Liriodendron tulipifera/Tulip Trees and
some type of hickory tree

Raspberries, maybe

Back at Lima Estates; they have bluebird boxes, too

Monday, June 24, 2019
For the west end of the Rocky Run Trail, we returned to the parking lot on Valley Road, but this time did not cross the street.

This section of the Rocky Run Trail seemed to be better maintained

Yet a different eco-system with a type of wood fern

Huge black boulder appears to be a glacial erratic

Rocky Run gets wider along this section of trail

Kent checks out the fallen deadwood

A nature-made "dam"

Other hikers at the ford where the path takes you to
the Darlington Trail, and end of Rocky Run Trail

Oh, look! The other half of the robin's egg (oh... right!)

And here we have the Middletown Pennsylvania Conglomerate, haha!

A poor graffitied beech tree trunk

Now we have completed the Rocky Run Trail.