Loggers Trail
Use	Multi-use (Hk, Bk, Eq)
East Trailhead	Purdum Trail, near Group Campground
South Trailhead	Adjacent to Kingsley Parking Lot
Distance	0.95 miles
Nearest Parking	The southern trailhead for Loggers starts at the Kingsley Parking lot.
Summary	Loggers Trail offers two contrasting trail segments: Traveling from the east, the trail is heavily forested, mostly flat and follows an old logging road along a ridgeline. After about a 15 minute hike, however, the trail turns to the south and twists and turns through partial clearings in the forest that have often been heavily infiltrated by NNIs.

Narrative Direction: West from the Purdum Trailhead
As you enter Loggers Trail from its eastern trailhead on Purdum Trail, you encounter total forest cover for as far as the eye can see along a ridgeline. Your hike for about 15 minutes along this ridgeline will be a pleasant one on a sometimes curving but flat old logging road that is mostly clear of non-native invasive plants. See the photo below.

Soon after you begin your hike on this trail, look to the left and notice the clearing at the edge of the woods a couple hundred yards away. That is the edge of the group campground you see faintly through the trees.

After about several hundred yards, you will come to the Pine Knob trail trailhead. This trail goes north down the side of the ridge you are now standing on in that part of the park that lies between Clarksburg Road and Purdum Trail.

Soon after that you will pass through a small grove of mature pine trees which standout because the rest of Loggers Trail is virtually all hardwood until it starts its downhill descent.

A little further ahead Loggers Trail intersects with the now closed Hard Cider Trail which formerly proceeded steeply down the south side of the ridge you are now on. However, Hard Cider Trail was closed due to severe erosion problems and it is now unmaintained and impassable.

After another couple hundred yards through the ridgeline canopy that envelopes this trail, you begin to hear cars ahead of you as you approach Clarksburg Road. Eventually, the trail diverges from the logging road you are now on (which dead ends ahead at Clarksburg Road), so follow the trail as it turns to the left here. There is a sign here, too.

Soon after making this turn, the trail begins a gradual descent. A lot of invasive Vietnamese stiltgrass starts to become visible as the forest canopy opens up.

Then a short way ahead Loggers Trail divides. To the left, it continues to wind downhill to the Kingsley Parking Lot. See the photo below.

But to the right, it proceeds west a short way where you reach a TRAIL CLOSED sign. This is the recently closed western leg of Loggers Trail. If you ignore the Trail Closed sign, you will proceed down a very steep and somewhat dangerous embankment before coming out on heavily traveled Clarksburg Road.

So stick to your left at this trail divide. You will soon notice your descent begin to accelerate as the trail switchbacks down the hillside. The steep descent in this direction means a steep ascent to those headed in the other direction, however. Hence, you will soon see the conveniently placed wooden bench depicted below.

The fairly heavy use of this steep part of the trail has caused deep rutting in spots so be careful of your footing. Also, there are many partial clearings in the forest along this stretch of the trail. You will notice that this increased sunlight has abetted the growth of non-native plants here.

After a few minutes, a grove of tall white pine trees will start to come into view. The tall pines here make a nice spot for a picnic on one of the tables located here. The trail ends as it passes through these pine trees at the edge of the Kingsley Parking lot, as seen in the photo below.