December 5 Run/Walk: A new North Park Run with Beth and Gretchen: meet at the Rachel Carson Trailhead (directions in message)

Sunday's plan, with thanks to Beth and Gretchen:

Travel up Rt 19 (Perry Highway) heading north, turn right at Wendy's onto Brooker Drive.  Brooker Drive immediately turns into Conestoga Drive. Park in the gravel parking lot along the edge of the woods.  Here's a map. 

Start of the run - Rachel Carson Trailhead in North Park on Conestoga Drive. The trailhead is roughly located behind Above All Salon and Spa in a strip mall in Wexford. The run/walk will follow the Rachel Carson Trail using the arrows on the brown Allegheny County Park posts. When you reach the McKinney soccer complex turn right and run along McKinney Rd for about 700 ft.  Turn left at a weathered wooden sign and take the path that leads through a wildflower meadow then into the woods of North Park. You can take any number of trails from here, and you may need the map on your phone to navigate back to McKinney Rd.  Getting lost is half the fun! 

Followed by coffee at Cafe Conmigo, 10 North Meadow Drive, off Perry Highway (map)

Last Sunday took us all the way from the Hot Metal Bridge to Hazelwood on the trail - lots of open space, natural landscape, a different view of the Mon, and also of where Pitt and CMU will be cooking up inscrutable futuristic stuff in Hazelwood Green.

And, free coffee (!) and room to lounge around at the Hotel Indigo. 

Speaking of inscrutable, my sketchy endorsement notes this week appear to include nasal strips, Canadian bacon, older dating, naked photos, and JDate. Hope it wasn't recorded.