Plainsboro Preserve

Plainsboro Preserve (6/14/2014)

This place is a little gem. With over 5 miles of hiking trails, a very beautiful lake, grasslands and swamps, a large parking lot, and a fantastic visitor's center (it's Audubon, after all), you can't go wrong. Today we hiked just about every trail in this beautiful little preserve except for the new 0.5-mile Orange trail that begins behind the visitor's center, and part of the Yellow trail.

Using this map we crossed the field south of the parking lot and took the Education trail through the woods, continuing west on Yellow, then doing the Red loop. We next took Yellow west to the border of the preserve property, then backtracked and continued north on Yellow to Green which we took to White. White is the most-traveled trail in the preserve, since it leads to every other trail. Next we took Maggie's Trail on the isthmus in the lake, a gorgeous little trail with views on both sides. After doing Blue in a counter-clockwise direction we took White all the way back to the parking lot.

Total distance hiked today was 5.1 miles in just a bit over 3 hours.

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