Sunday, October 25, 2015

a walk on McKenna scenic heritage road

The guide book says this is the prettiest hike on PEI, and it may be right.
It's about 30 km from Charlottetown.  Take the TransCanada, turn right in Cornwall at #248, then the next left #235/Kingston Road.  drive 16 km and turn left on highway 13.  After 5 km, turn left on #246/South Melville Rd. and drive 1.5 km.  McKenna Road is on the left.  It's a red clay road that meanders for about 9 km.  The only down side is that it's not a loop, so you need to make a decision about when to turn back and walk the same distance back to the car.

The forest is sugar maples, spruce, birch, and these lovely yellow beech.

The sides of the road are bordered by embankments covered with lichen and moss.



A hole in the bank covered with lichen looks like a cave.

red maple leaf on a white spruce bow.

fungus on the side of a big tree.






this mushroom is growing horizontally out of a bed of moss on the embankment.

a peeling birch



the bad side of the trail  - how can people dump a mattress in such a beautiful spot?

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