Hidden Valley Preserve
Hidden Valley Preserve is a beautiful, dog-friendly hiking area featuring well-marked and well-maintained trails with diverse terrain and scenic views, including a river, footbridges, and an abandoned quartz mine. The park offers large parking spaces and is family friendly with kid-friendly hikes. The trails are mostly flat and easy to navigate, making it ideal for leisurely walks with dogs and children. There is wheelchair accessible parking available. Visitors appreciate the natural beauty, picnic spots, and the peaceful experience away from cell service interference.
Reviews
Absolutely love this location. The Henry David Thoreau hanging bridge is pretty impressive and the perfect subject for fall foliage photography. The parking area is super close to the bridge, so you don’t have to hike miles to see it. The rest of the trails are pretty flat and wide, for the most part, and easy to walk and navigate. The trail markings perfectly align with the maps and are easy to follow from one trail to another. We hiked to the abandoned quartz mine and were blown away by how much quartz was still in the area. Several other footbridges and man made staircases were helpful to see both sides of the river. There were some people along the trails but it was not overcrowded (during the week). I will definitely return to this location to do more hiking, to check out the lookouts and the train tracks.
So there is a large parking area for this trail. There will be 2 bridges along the way that u can cross. There are also many trails u can choose from here and some are listed on the all trails app. We hiked over to see the quartz mine cave and it’s such a beautiful area to check out. It’s only about a 15 min hike to get to it. Definitely dog friendly area.
Absolutely gorgeous! If you go in the winter it can be icy. Stagger your steps and follow the edges where crunchy snow and leaves are dry. Has a magical quality when the moss and hearty greens peek through the glistening snow in the sunlight.
We felt there should have been signs on all the intersections telling hikers where and how far the next attraction was located (like in Europe). In other words, I forgot to take a picture of the map. Rookie mistake! If you want to see the mine, just walk straight up the trail from the main big parking lot. Don’t cross any of the bridges to your left like we did or you will have to cross back over at the second bridge to pick up the main trail. Or…just take a pic of the trail map before you hike. 🙂 NOTE: No cell service with Verizon.
Excellent place to hike with dogs or family. Well-marked, well maintained trails. Beautiful views. Picnic areas along some of the trails and river. Different kinds of terrain. A little slick in some places but very manageable.