The Haw River Land Trail is a proposed 70 mile trail from Haw River State Park to Jordan Lake State Recreation Area. Several sections are completed but it will be years before the proposed trail is completed. Today, I hiked from Glencoe paddle access to Stony Creek Marina. This is just outside the Burlington city limits in the Glencoe community. Abandoned mills dot the sides of the river. there were two on this short section. The dam for the first is shown above and below.
This section is maintained by Alamance County Parks. There is ample parking at several spots. Near the dam is a side trail on the strip of land between the mill sluice and the river. A number of picnic tables and benches are found here. Briefly, you follow a road as you pass the mill and the mill house community.
Soon, another mill is encountered. There was a family engaged in a photo shoot here. After crossing and road and then another, you hike by the one "bad neighbor" of the trail. The maintainer of this section told me this guy piles his yard waste and debris adjacent to the trail. He does his target practice deliberately to scare off hikers. There were some other issues too. It sounded as though attempts to rein this guy in have failed and a feud has ensued. No sign of him as I passed by twice.
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