Greenbrier River Trail North Caldwell

Whether through hiking or biking, I’ve gone down the Greenbrier River Trail North Caldwell a good number of times in the past (and blogged about it a couple times–for instance, here, here, here, and here). It’s gorgeous all through the seasons).

(Before I get to the rest of this post, I fixed up a new page for my travels! It’s now on the menu so if you want to scour for places to explore, go for it! I’ll be adding to it every other Tuesday!)

The entire trail is actually 78 miles long, so I have not in fact ever reached the end, although I really did want to try. (Med school kinda got in the way of that.) I do have a couple friends from church who biked the whole 156 miles though and lived to tell the tale, so there’s that.

Distance: 78 miles out and back (we went for ~3.5-4 miles and turned back)
Elevation: Pretty much none, unless you walk down to the swimming holes and have to come back up!
Trailhead Location: I-64E and take exit 175 to Rt.60W 2.7 miles to Rt. 38 Stone House Rd. I-64W take exit 169 to Rt. 219N then 0.5 miles to Rt. 30 Brush Rd then 0.5 miles to Rt. 38 Stone House Rd.
Difficulty: Easy
Parking: There’s a parking lot at the North Caldwell “entrance!”

There are pretty little waterfalls off to the left and on the right, you can see the Greenbrier River!

Wildflowers!

This is what the way down to the first swimming hole looks like!

It’s such a peaceful place. <3

Over the years, my med school friends and I have definitely had the aspirations to bring our stuff out here to study, but a laptop battery unfortunately only lasts so long (and our study sessions tend to marathon for at least 8 hours), so we never did.

There’s a toilet every 8-ish miles or so! The one we came across was at Milepost 4.7.

It’s a gorgeous place though! :]

This is what the way down to the second swimming hole looks like!

Biking, horseback riding, and camping are all definitely doable along this trail too! There’s horse trailer parking every 10 miles or so, and campsites and canoe access points available at many locations along the trail.

This is probably the only picture there is of us in the entirety of our trip where we actually look normal. What can I say? We’re awesome.

In truth, we had actually planned on taking a longer hike than that, but then we happened upon a black bear ambling down the side of the hill. We figured it’d be best to leave.

A video posted by Farrah @ fairyburger (@fairyburger) on Aug 2, 2016 at 6:50am PDT

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