Directions to Roaring Brook Waterfall

 The old saying is true, the third time is the charm. With blue skies and temperatures in the low seventies, the perfect hiking day was beckoning Wayne to try once again to locate the High Falls at Roaring Brook Wildlife Management Area. In my previous three posts about this quest, "Don't go Chasing Waterfalls" ,  "Another Day, Another Trail" and "Trail / No Trail" I fear that I might have needlessly dissuaded a few hearty adventurers from taking on the challenge and here is why - we were almost there.

We left the dogs at home as I had promised Ginny that I wouldn't subject her to another grooming from an aimless day of wandering (being lost really) in Roaring Brook. We also assumed that being dog free would allow us to move at a quicker pace and so have more time to travel further into the area. As it turns out, it hadn't been the dogs that kept us from our destination, it had been the early spring trials and a deeper, swifter brook. So the take away form all of this is that on a cool dry day in June, a couple of fifty six year olds can make it to the High Falls in a little over an hour.

From the Basin Rd Trailhead go left of the sign and take the Red and White trail. Where the Red and White trails split, take the Red trail to the Blue. Follow the Blue trail until it ends at a clearing where the Sweet Fern grows. The logging road directly ahead will take you into Roaring Brook. You will go left on that road.

Disclaimer: These directions will not guarantee that you won't get lost.

Cross the field of Sweet Fern to the logging road

Go left on the logging road pas the White Trail sign

When the trail splits go right / green

We stacked rocks on the side of the correct trail

You will have walked on the trail for a long time, continue straight at this junction.

When you get the end of the trail, take a left on the road- note the stacked logs. 

First brook crossing

Note the timbers after the first crossing

Stay to the left on the trail

Second Brook crossing

Third brook crossing

You can start to hear the falls, stay on the trail

Top of the High Falls

High Falls at Roaring Brook

The brook disappears into a deep gorge.

Wayne decided that we should continue on the trail to see if we could find the end.  

End of the trail

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