Lake Katharine State Nature Preserve
Lake Katharine State Nature Preserve is a beautiful natural area featuring well-maintained hiking trails with scenic rock formations, bodies of water, and lush forests. The preserve offers wheelchair accessible parking and kid-friendly hiking opportunities, making it suitable for families and outdoor enthusiasts. Visitors enjoy the easy to moderate trails and the peaceful, stunning environment.
Reviews
This is an amazing nature preserve. I was disappointed that the Pine Ridge and Lake View Trail loops were closed (until December 2023). The Calico Bush Trail had beautiful sandstone formations and lush green Hemlock trees. In contrast, the Salt Long trail takes you through a flood plain forest where Virginia Bluebells were blooming. The boardwalk area, stairs, and bridges made the hiking path easy to navigate. In total, we hiked about 3.2 miles. In the future, we would love to return and hike the ridge trails that were closed.
Easy to moderate difficulty. Well maintained trails. Pretty rock formations and bodies of water.
One of my favorite places to go hiking. Trails are great and well maintained
A stunning area with tons of beautiful natural features. We really enjoyed this easy 2 mile loop on the long trail.
So pretty! Went on all the trails in early march, planning on coming back in the summer, too! Trails where we’ll maintained. I’m young, so I had no problem hiking, but there were a few spots others might not like. If you bring small kids, make sure you keep an eye on them. There are some big drop offs.