Valley Girl Views: Rider Park, Lycoming County PA

Rider Park

Rider Park, Caleb Creek Rd, Trout Run, PA 17771

This is a gem of a park - more than 10 miles of hiking trails of all variations. The trails are well maintained and well marked. There's a little bit of history [ruins from the old farm] plenty of benches and picnic tables spread along the trails, a pavilion, a meadow, several beautiful overlooks, and even a very old, small, cemetery.

Although the trails are very well marked, the map is a little confusing, because there are so many "extra" trails.

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The Pavilion Area

Right in front of the parking area, as you head up to the pavilion there is a little free library.

The barn ruins are up near the pavilion.

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Doe Pen Vista

This is perhaps one of the easiest outlooks to get to. From the parking lot walk towards the pavilion area. Take the path to the right, there will be signs for the Doe Pen vista. I don't know how far the walk is for certain, but it's not far.

There's a nice picnic table at the Doe Pen Vista.

The sign explains what you see from the vista

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Loop Trail Vista

From the Doe Pen Vista, we walked on out to the "Green Trail Vista"

If you look at the map at the top of this post, you can see that this trail is hand drawn on to the map. It runs parallel, sort of, to the Cheryl Trail, out to the loop trail.

It's a gorgeous view.

There are benches like this along several spots on the trail

We followed the loop trail out to the Cheryl's Trail.

The trails are all very well marked.

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Connections To The Loyalsock Trail

As you follow the top of Cheryls Trail, a bit of a loop at that takes you through Confusion Corner and back around to the cemetery, there are two offshoots that connect to the Loyalsock Trail

Middle Point Trail

And Calebs Creek Trail connects to Walled Up Spring Trail

We didn't take this trail yet - it's on my list for another visit.

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Confusion Corner

I don't know why this is named confusion corner, but it's a nice little clearing with a bench to sit and rest or read.

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The Cemetery At Rider Park

The Ludwig Cemetery & Water Cistern

Located at the top of Cheryls Trail. It's well marked and easy to find.

The stones are mostly unreadable. I could not find a listing for the site on FindAGrave.

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The Other Side Of The Park

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For the first half of this post, we were, on the map above, Above the white square designating the parking lot. The photos below are from when we hiked the yellow trail, below the white square on the map above.

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Katy Jane East Vista