Arcadia Trail, 5.0 mile loop

The Arcadia Trail is located within R.I.'s Arcadia Management Area. Blazed yellow, the trail extends for 7.1 miles beginning at the Arcadia Forestry Headquarters on Arcadia Road to Rt. 165, making it a round trip of 14.2 miles. Our plan was to break up the miles. We planned to hop over onto the 0.98 Arcadia Crossover Trail, creating a loop, and lowering our hike to 5.0 miles round trip. If you desire an even lesser hiking distance, you can also park beside the trail head on KG Ranch Rd., reducing the miles even further to just 3.0 RT.

Cristy at the trail head on KG Ranch Road 

Rock hardening we helped install last year.

Skunk Cabbage blooming 

Spring has sprung with all the green starting to poke through.

Trail intersection: Arcadia Crossover (white) is straight, Arcadia Trail (yellow) continues  right

Cristy on the bridge we helped carry the lumber to build  last June.

Here we left the deciduous trees and entered a pine forest. 

At the merge of the blue blazed North South Trail & yellow blazed Arcadia Trail.

NST & Arcadia trail blaze

North South Spur Trail

North South Trail Boulder Field

Multiple rock piles or carins like these are found all around New England.

At the intersection of the Arcadia Crossover, an old wooden bench was a welcoming spot for lunch 

After lunch, we had time to laugh & take a couple of 'selfies' with 'duck lips'

Two bumps on a log, selfy #2

Intersection of the Arcadia Crossover (white), Arcadia Trail (yellow) & NST (blue)

I have to say, and we both agreed that the Arcadia Crossover Trail was really featureless & boring.

We exited where we entered the trail, at the Arcadia Forestry Headquarters.

Not a quiet peaceful hike. Route 95 can be heard close by most of the time

For a Google Maps track of our hike (Click Here)