“Walk
away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.”
~ John Muir
~ 1838-1914
The
view from the Bobolink Trail, just off the Delaware and Lehigh National
Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) at Lehigh Gap delivers a beautiful vista of
both sides of the snow dusted Kittatiny Ridge, also called Blue Mountain, on a
winter afternoon.
The
Lehigh Gap in Slatington, Pennsylvania, is a crossroads where the Lehigh Gap
Nature Center’s trails connect two historic trails – the Appalachian Trail and
the D&L Trail.
The
Appalachian Trail, a foot path, follows the ridge on both sides of the Lehigh
Gap, running 1,245 miles south to Georgia and 930 miles north to Maine. Running
from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail passes through the Lehigh and
Delaware rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.
The
Bobolink Trail connects the D&L Trail with the Lehigh and New England (LNE)
Trail about 1.2 miles north and west of the Osprey House at Lehigh Gap Nature
Center. The Bobolink Trail is named for the Bobolink, a representative of the
migrant grassland bird species that the Lehigh Gap Nature Center hopes to
attract to the refuge’s re-vegetated prairie grasslands.
