From the parking area next to the kiosk, the Blue/Orange Trail leads into the park. Soon, a Yellow Trail enters on the left that creates a loop along the top of the ridge. Follow the Blue/Orange Trail as it descends along a brook. In the spring, there are many wildflowers.
The Orange Trail is an easy, short walk alongside a stream and wetlands. The Orange Trail leads up to the Yellow Loop Trail while the Blue Trail continues to descend along the brook. The Blue Trail eventually becomes part of the Yellow Trail that leads out to Stonehedge Road.
Creating a loop from the Blue Trail back to the Yellow Trail requires climb a short, but steep hill up to the ridge and the Yellow Trail.
Turn onto New Road at the traffic light. Proceed to the top of the hill near the junction with Farmingville Road. Parking and trailhead are on the right side of the road at the entrance to the park.
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We took the blue trail from the New Rd parking to the yellow and back via one of the yellow trails. If you did not use the trail finder blue dot, picking which yellow trail to follow is very hard. Having Yellow/Yellow trail intersections are a very bad design. Obviously this park has heavy, daily local usage by people who know the trails very well and have no problem with this. As a trail designer/builder in a very similar local park, I would never have such confusing blazing to accommodate non-local users.
We were very impressed with the lack of invasives. Keep up the good work. There were 5 blowdowns, all stepovers, on the blue trail and several more on the yellow trails. Some looked like fairly new arrivals, but all need attention.
Over all a good hike.