Kakeout Reservoir

Kakeout Reservoir (11/1/2009)

This hike, suggested to me by my friend Tom, circles the picturesque Kakeout Reservoir in Butler in a clockwise direction as described here on the LocalHikes website. The blazes are quite confusing after crossing over the creek on the long wooden bridge within the first 20 minutes of the hike (pictured in the third row of photos). Blue blazes lead to the top of a rather large hill (which we climbed). At the top the blue blazes continued. The blue blazes led us up Kakeout Mountain before we realized that we should have been skirting the banks of the reservoir. Back down we went (and a very slippery and steep descent it was), where we finally found the "correct" blue blazes heading along the shore! So the rule is, after the bridge, look for blue blazes to your right. Don't follow the blue blazes directly in front of you. Clear as mud, right? :)

On the eastern side of the reservoir, we also couldn't find the woods roaded which forks off to the right from the white trail. No worries, however, since the white trail leads all the way back to Fayson Lake Road. Total distance hiked was 4 miles in about 2.5 hours.

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