I went to Gray's Crossing for the second weekend in a row today. I had gone there last Sunday, to check out the park that I had seen a few times while driving down Northline Rd. It's a cute park, with a small picnic area right next to several bends in the Kaydeross (aka the Kayaderosseras Creek). I had seen a trail leading off to the left of the picnic area, almost immediately, and when I saw a sign stating "Burl Trail", I got my hopes up that I had found another place to run in the area. Unfortunately, it dead-ended after about a tenth or two of a mile. The dead-end was a fenced off area, curiously with the words "Protected Area" on a sign on the OTHER side of the fence.
Today I went back, after having confirmed that I missed a turn to the left, and that I also missed the other half of the trail going off to the left right near the start. I scouted out the area, using My Tracks so that I could see my (approximate) position on the map and compare it to the mapped version of the trail. I scoured the area, but could find no evidence of a trail to the left. The only conclusion I could come to was that the trail itself had been fenced off.
So, I backtracked and went down the other half of the trail, only to run into ANOTHER fence. This one cut across the trail at a diagonal, and extended off in either direction.
This leads me to believe that either a) Saratoga Spa State Park fences off the trail during mud season, b) it's closed off due to the construction, or c) something else is going on and I'm completely missing something obvious. I guess I'll go check it out again in late spring.
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