8 February 2019
The Comfort Inn in Scott, Louisiana was indeed comfortable. I went to sleep at 9:30 and waked at 4:30 am. I felt completely rested after the long drive from Enchanted Rock.
I usually don’t eat much breakfast at these places but I had their waffle, coffee, orange juice, banana and yogurt. I guess I needed to fortify myself for the coming drive.
The drive to Blackwater River State Park was about 6 hours with stops. The only problem was you couldn’t program the street number in for the park on the gps. The park has recognized that fact and warned people about it. I just followed the signs on I-10 and made it OK.
After setting up camp, I decided to do some hiking. There are two trails mentioned in the park handout: Chain of Lakes Trail and Juniper Lake Nature Trail. Here is where you get to read my bitching.
First, the Juniper Lake Nature Trail is supposed to be next to the camping area. It may very well be, but I found a sign on another trail no where near the camping area.
If you walk out the main entrance to the park, you cross the road and it supposedly leads you to a segment of the Florida Trail which takes you to the Blackwater River. It may very well do that but there is no trail signage whatsoever. I gave up trying to find that trail and instead walked the road to the bridge into the park over the Blackwater River.
A park employee was painting road crossing stripes and I asked him about it. He assured me that I could pick up the trail and make it back to the camp site.
In any case, I was now at the Chain of Lakes Trail. It starts out broad enough and plainly marked. However, once you get to the beach, you never know there is a trail off to the side.
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The trail is interesting enough. You walk around a series of oxbow lakes from the old river bed.
Then you climb out of the bottoms and into a longleaf pine upland. It’s a nice trail but someone needs to really work on marking the trail.
After finishing the Chain of Lakes Trail, I walked to the access point of the Florida Trail on the other side of the river and started heading back to the campsite. The Florida Trail is well marked.
However, where the trail branches and you are supposed to find the trail back to the campsite – nothing. No marking, no indication whatsoever. I ended up finding a gravel road that led back to the main road and the entrance to the park.
The hiking was good and I covered 4.5 miles in about 2 hours.
It’s supposed to get cold tonight (39F) so I’ve doubled up the sleeping bags again.
