Latodami Trails

Latodami Nature Center (NC) Trails

NC Red Trail - Nature Access Trail

Distance: 0.40 miles, loop trail
Difficulty: Easy

An easy path that winds its way around streams with signage about the local environment. Originally designed for use of hikers with a visual impairment, a rubber rope acts as a guide throughout the forest trail.

NC Pink Trail - Pond Trail

Distance: 0.25 miles, loop
Difficulty: Easy

Stop to look for tracks of raccoon, muskrat, white-tailed deer, and fox, or pause to read signage about the life in and around the pond.

NC Orange Trail

Distance: 0.23 miles, loop trail
Difficulty: Easy

Wind through a blend of changing habitats and walk past remnants of the Pig Sty and Turkey Pen, which were purposely located at a distance from the farmhouse to keep away the smell of the animals that were once farmed there.

NC Green Trail

Distance: 1.15 miles, point-to-loop with several starting points
Difficulty: Moderate

For a more difficult hike, start from the Latodami Nature Center barn. For an easier hike, start from the small parking lot on Reynolds Road. This hike explores the North Field, a 32-acre meadow bursting with wildflowers and pollinators that was once cropland for the Latodami Farm. Notice the remains of the windmill which was used in the days before electricity to pump and store water for the farm.

NC Blue Trail

Distance: 1.2 miles, loop
Difficulty: Moderate

This trail winds through a beautiful, mature woodland valley and an early successional forest that was once cropland.

NC Purple Trail

Distance: 0.63 miles, point-to-point
Difficulty: Moderate

Climb through shady forests and along stream valleys, noticing Hawthorne and Crab Apple trees at the trail’s peak to indicate a young forest.

NC White Trail

Distance: 1.17 miles, point-to-point with several starting points
Difficulty: Moderate

For a more difficult hike, start from the Latodami Nature Center barn. For an easier hike, start from the small parking lot on McKinney Road. This trail explores Walter Field and Pigeon Field, two croplands turned meadows, both bursting with goldenrod and asters in late summer.

NC Bike Friendly Trails

Distance: 2.50 miles, loop

Mountain bikers should use this designated mountain biking loop for a more enjoyable ride and to avoid sensitive habitats. This loop is marked with bicycle symbols  on the trail maps and at trail intersections.