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  • Difficulty: Moderate two yellow stars
  • Distance: 0.70 miles
  • Restrooms: Yes
  • Stroller Friendly: No
  • Wheelchair Friendly: No
  • Playground: Yes
  • Dog Friendly: Yes
  • Location: Lancaster County Central Park
    • black and white illustration of a ancient scroll map

    Clues for Your Hike

    1. From the parking area, walk on the grass toward the first fitness station, a green vertical ladder, (baseball field number one is behind you, across the parking area).
    2. Continue straight on the grass, keeping the large pine trees on your left and garden fields on your right.
    3. You will come to the next fitness station, a green vertical pole (for practicing squats).
    4. Continue straight ahead, parallel to Golf Road on your left. You will come to a third fitness station with white bars (push-ups).
    5. Walk around the push-up station and toward the baseball field, ahead on your right.
    6. Walk behind the backstop and next to a parking area on your left.
    7. Take the wide path ahead between the garden fields. Note the bird houses. Do you see any birds or butterflies?
    8. As the path ends, and you are back on grass, turn left to go up a hill. Tennis courts will be on your right.
    9. Turn right just after you pass some large rocks. You will walk by a water station with blue handles.
    10. Walk straight ahead on the gravel and dirt. There are large pine trees on your right and garden plots on your left. (You are now behind the tennis courts).
    11. Bear left back onto the grass and walk up the hill toward the fourth fitness station, a balance beam.
    12. The tree with the post is very close.
    13. Turn back and retrace your path back to the water spicket station, going left after the big rocks, and down the hill to the playground and the parking area where you began.

    Did You Know?

    • The first map to contain the name “America” was made by a German cartographer, in 1507. The US Library of Congress purchased it for $10 million in 2013.
    • Maps have existed since the times of cave paintings. There is a map of stars that is believed to be approximately 16,500 years old.
    • In the beginning of the 1930s, maps were given out for free in American gas stations, and the estimated number handed out was 8 billion.
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