The Lancaster Conservancy has opened two miles of new hiking trails.
The hiking trails were added to a 112-acre High Family Nature Preserve in Mount Joy Township, Lancaster County.
“The 2-mile natural surface trail system at the High Family Nature Preserve explores three distinct features – the restored meadow, giant diabase boulders, and two cold streams that run through the preserve before joining Conewago Creek. The trail loops through this unique landscape, allowing visitors to observe various ecosystems and the evolution of the restoration work as they cross small bridges the Conservancy has built across streams and step around towering boulders covered in moss and lichen,” the Lancaster Conservancy said in a news release…