Fall Leaves Hike Take 2

Wednesday we decided to explore the area a bit more to find good hiking trails for Fall colors. On the way to a park we drove by a few weeks ago, we missed one of the turn offs and took the next available turn. We ended up visiting a different park on the other side of the mountain range that had some scenic views of downtown.

This park mostly had evergreen trees. So we collected a few pinecones for our preschool craft and enjoyed the views. Dani walked around and collected a handful of little rocks. I'm not sure why she found them special, they just looked like gravel to me, but she would periodically have to stop to pick up some special rocks to add to her handful.There were a lot of interesting large rock formations all over. Dani enjoyed climbing on them and playing with the pine needles on them. We went on a short hike just to see what this trail looked like. It didn't have the fall leaves we were looking for so we eventually turned around, but it looks like it will be a fun trail to try in the future. Since it was likely to snow the next day, and we might miss our chance of seeing Fall leaves, we continued on and found our way back to the park we originally were hoping to reach. The light was perfect and made the trees look like they were glowing and the sunrays were gorgeous.
Dani enjoyed running through the "tunnel" of trees. The trees next to the stream were quite pretty.

Unfortunately, our camera battery died shortly after arriving at this park. We did get a few additional pictures on Trent's phone which I will have to upload later. This park is now one of my favorite places to take pictures. I hope to return later for family photos. The ~1 hr long drive is still worth it.