From collection Place List - History Trust
Old route to Sargent that started at McFarland's farm on Eagle Lake Road. Now,to start, 6' wide route can be found descending from behind current Ranger’s station through woods. Left fork in woods goes down, crosses Aunt Betty Pond Carriage Road, goes 100 yards and peters out. Some sections of this spur are lined to one side with stones. Continuing on McFarland Trail, pass vernal pond on left and cross stony ledges and then Aunt Betty Pond Carriage Road. Entrance on other side overgrown thick, not obvious, but opens up again to wide bed, descending, and is cairned. Trail narrows to footpath marked with cairns - easy to follow here. A fork for trail 316 might be in area. McFarland Trail becomes faint and hard to follow. After stony ledges interspersed with forest and one small wet area trail becomes obvious again with cairns, and here it is wide also. Follow to hill on Eagle Lake Carriage Road (uphill to 8). Three steps across Carriage Road, but trail not obvious. Continue straight and trail reappears - follow for 2-300 yards to cairn in middle of nowhere - end of trail? - another 200 yards to left towards Eagle Lake is stone foundation. Trail beyond this seems to coincide with Carriage Road and may have been obliterated (according to Goodrich, trail crossed what is now Seven Bridges Carriage Road and continued well marked by cairns up Sargent along stream bed - cairns disappear near summit)
Note: "telegraph poles" in cairns running northwest/southeast. Several in a row going northwest - they lead to stone wall. Foundation and remains of wood structure. Lots of cedar poles. CJ (SB), DG
