Finally I had the time to do some exploring yesterday. I parked by the Water Tank on Blodgett Drive and went out to find a route to the Falcon Trail. Normally it would be easy since the lower jeep road goes straight over that way but the bureaucrats at Utilities think that their road is sacred, not to be trod by mere mortals so I had to find an alternative.

I started on the lower jeep trail and headed onto the AFA. If you check the maps, there are two jeep roads/trails. The upper one runs into one of the small retention basins by the water treatment plant and the lower, goes to the treatement plant however, there is a gate at about 1.5 miles warning that the road not available to hikers/runners/bikers and other such riff-raff.

There is a gate at about 1 mile on the right and a horse trail bears off to the left along the side of the ridge overlooking a dry retention pond area. This trail will travel along the ridge for about .4 miles and there will be a branch in the rail. If you keep left, the trail will drop down a rocking section to a flat meadow and proceed north to a gate and a paved road. Crossing the road, there is a couple of large rocks. If you look down, you can see the Falcon trail below. I did not go down at this point as the trail was not obvious but in talking to a cadet I met at this point, he indicated that it was accessable. I proceeded for about 1/2 mile left along the paved road to a dirt turnoff that connected to the Falcon Trail.

In returning, you have to be alert because the trail in the meadow is fairly faint so it might make sense when going towards the Falcon trail to stop and note the bearing of the trail while it is fresh in your mind.

I will post GPS data on the website when I get a chance to create the data.