It is sometimes said of Little Bennett Regional Park with its nearly 4000 acres of largely undeveloped forest that it is perhaps the only park in the Montgomery County park system where a visitor can experience a feeling of being 'lost in the woods.'

The Friends of Little Bennett have recently completed a series of maps that depict each trail in the Park on 1:24,000 foot USGS topographic maps. Our map of the Western Piedmont trail shown on the right provides an example of the maps we have created. The green route traces the Western Piedmont trail and the red routes are trails that intersect it. The yellow x's signify notable park historic features, nearby parking lots and other points of interest along each trail. Also note that the Western Piedmont trail's elevation profile is provided below its map. We have compiled similar elevation profiles for all the trails in the park.

Each trail's individual map and elevation profile is available on its separate web page. See, for example, the Western Piedmont trail page and scroll down to the bottom of the page. All trail maps and elevation profiles are similarly located at the bottom of each trail page. Note also that we have created PDFs of each map page so visitors can easily print any map page and take it with them to the Park.

You can access all our trail pages from our main trails page or from our interactive trails map directory.

Hopefully, our new individual trail maps will help prevent some park visitors from feeling a little less 'lost in the woods' in the future (we realize that some visitors have figured out that getting a little lost in the woods is part of fun of visiting Little Bennett and will simply ignore our new maps — and that is OK, too).

Posted August 16, 2010