The paved, curving greenway trail stretches from Maryland Heights Community Center to the edge of Creve Couer Lake Park. It’s not a long trail for bike ride, but it’s a nice short cut to the lake and the Katy Trail connector from there.
It’s mostly deserted today and a little cool despite the slanting afternoon sun. Nature trails wind off the pavement toward the creek. They’re too close to the highway to really be quiet, but even over the dull roar of the traffic, are the sounds of birds and deer and rustling underbrush.
It practically serves as a backyard for the houses edging the park. I wonder how many take advantage of it. The short worn cut-outs from the neighborhoods all along the trail, suggest that many people do.
A quiet picnic alcove, at the end of the nature trail, overlooks the creek and the tangled bramble of winter weeds and mossy branches.
Rambling ... 