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Mike Collins

Most of the park is closed for repairs. You can navigate around via side streets and get to the observation platform. Be prepared to get wet!

Plenty of parking. Easy, mostly flat trails. Transco is dirt and grass that goes out along an old gas line. Hooks left through a chainlink fence, over an old bridge and runs into active train tracks. There is a trail that continues across the tracks but as far as I know that's private property. The Saw Mill Mudflats is a nice trail that runs between two tidal basins and electrical towers. Plenty of birds. Lots of geese and ducks. Saw Mill runs one direction to a rocky break that can be passed at low tide but are algae covered and slippery. Trail isn't maintained beyond that. Going the other direction the trail dead ends at a 9/11 Memorial and runs into the other half of the Transco trail back to the parking lot. The trails are all largely well maintained. There are usually a fair amount of people hiking, walking dogs or bird watching. Large well lit parking lot as well.

I've done this loop twice in the past week. From the parking lot go right and follow the gravel path until one branch largely disappears and goes uphill and the other goes into the woods along a stream. Follow up the hill along the path until the signboard. At the top I followed the blue blazes out into the Mills Reservation stone gates. Trail gets moderately more challenging going downhill. Lots of mud and rocks. If you're not a dog lover beware there are a fair amount of hikers with dogs and a bunch aren't leashed. It's a 50 minute or so hike start to finish. A fair amount of people along the route as well.

Parking lot comes up out of nowhere. Main trail is poorly marked but not hard to navigate. Most dogs unleaded. Had a little chirper come running at me :). Once you hit the middle of the main trail it’s an uphill left with zero markings to a marker showing all trails. Followed the blue blazes which were the clearest. Slippery decent but had trekking poles. Doesn’t feel like their are homes and a university just beyond the trees.