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A lightly used woodland trail with easy and moderately difficult sections from Beech Mountain parking lot that descends, rises, and descends again very gently to Long Pond parking. Begins on 15-foot wide, side-ditched gravel roadbed with metal culverts and log waterbars, then forks right at intersection with Canada Cliffs Trail. Here, tread returns to mostly soil/organics and enters intimate and unique section as path winds through lush forest and around gigantic, moss and lichen-draped boulders (this section often referred to by frequent hikers as “Fairyland”). Highly constructed work includes stepped switchbacks, capped culverts, stepping stones (probably not original), and long sections of large coping on top of rubble retaining walls. These walls are the major defining characteristic of the trail where it follows along edge of steep, wooded ravine. Final section is mostly woodland path with organic tread - no evidence of ever being crafted.
