Day 89: Still at Governor Dodge State Park

We finally awoke to a sunny day, though cold, in the low 40’s.  After allowing the sun to warm things up a little, we headed out for a hike.  We had not really planned it, but we ended up walking for four hours, covering almost eight miles of trail (which wiped us out for the rest of the afternoon).

There are trails here for horseback-riding, for cross-country skiing, for mountain biking, and for hiking, some of which overlap, some not.  We followed Meadow Valley Trail for much of the time, meandering up and down hills, with the trail at times grassy and at other times rocky.  At several places we saw lots of birds---probably the best bird-watching of the whole trip---though with leaves still on the trees we were not able to identify them all and most were fairly common ones: chickadees, flickers, bluebirds and blue jays, and so forth.

It warmed up to about 60 by late afternoon when we lit a campfire and relaxed before dinner.  It was a good last day at the park before we move on to visit family members in Waterford.