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Bethlehem
Swendsen Farm
Preserve
Date visited: 4/24/2021
This property is on a farm, and the trails are open to the public. The trails venture mostly into a wide open field, so I would avoid this on hot summer days. We mulled around the beginning of the trails, but this was the last stop on a busy day so we didn't explore too much.
Nonnewaug Falls
Date visited: 4/24/2021
On the map it looked like the falls were in Bethlehem, but the falls themselves and most of the trails are in Woodbury. Only the parking area and very beginning of the trail are in Bethlehem. The pictures here are from the grass pasture that featured the trail leading up to the falls. As you can see, when we stopped to take a rest on the way back down, Mandy decided she was really going to take a rest!
Bellamy
Preserve
Date visited: 4/30/2022
The All-Trails app, which is my primary guide for finding places to go for these adventures, doesn't have much in the town of Bethlehem. I used the Bethlehem Land Trust website to find this place. We hiked a very pleasant figure 8 loop. There's a wide, straight trail that leads out to Old Bethlehem Cemetery. One of the smaller loops leads to a very small pond. This area of the state is very hilly, but this trail was remarkably flat. It's a very easy trail and a nice spot to take the dogs for a walk.
