EVENT
WHEN:
DATE: 03/21/2018
TIME: 9:00am-1:30pm (prompt start, estimated end)
MILEAGE: 8-8.5 miles
DATE: 03/21/2018
TIME: 9:00am-1:30pm (prompt start, estimated end)
MILEAGE: 8-8.5 miles
DESCRIPTION: (Wear appropriate clothing & bring water! Below are some special instructions: what to bring, relative difficulties, interesting features, and carpooling directions.)
Our annual turkey-scouting hike (the feathered kind, as well). This hike will be flat and may be muddy. Hike goes through Blackbird State Forest; mostly wooded, some field edges. Bring water and lunch. Keep your eyes open for turkeys! Carpool: meet at Suburban Plaza Shopping Center at the bank parking lot by 8 AM. From the intersection of DE-4 & DE-7. Take DE-4 west for 7.5 mi. Continue straight onto Suburban Dr for 0.1 mi. Turn right at Hamlet Way & proceed 240 ft further into the parking lot. Turn right into the M&T Bank lot & park on the right.
LOCATION
WHERE:
Blackbird State Forest – Tybout Tract
Blackbird State Forest – Tybout Tract
NEAREST ADDRESS:
502 Blackbird Forest Rd
Smyrna, DE
19977
EXACT COORDINATES:
39.345401, -75.675689
ONLINE DIRECTIONS:
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WRITTEN DIRECTIONS:
From the DE-1 exit of I-95. Take DE-1 south, going over the Roth bridge take the right exit before the toll to DE-13 south. Proceed south on DE-13. Just past Townsend, DE-71 will join from the right, proceed about 1 mi. Turn right onto Blackbird Forest Rd. Proceed about 1.2 mi crossing the RR tracks. Just past Oliver Guessford Rd turn left into the Tybout Tract of Blackbird State Forest. Proceed about 300 yards, to the rearmost parking lot.
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