Due to the MCM picnic being on the first Saturday in June, this hike will take place on the second Saturday.  This “2nd Saturday of the Month” Appalachian Trail hike offers an out-and-back, self-paced hike targeting a moving pace average of 3.0 mph or better over 15 to 20+ miles. The hike has intermediate “distance/ascent” […]

Starting from the Brookside Gardens Visitors Center, we will briefly stop to smell the summer roses, then take the Northwest Branch Trail along the Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River to the Fall Line Trail for lunch, returning on the Rachel Carson Greenway Trail, where she wrote Silent Spring. Elevation gain approximately 500 feet, minor […]