Hiking

As you venture beyond our golf course, there you will find our beautiful hiking trails. Allow your body to converge with nature as you experience all the Shawnagunk Mountains and Honor’s Haven has to offer. Whether you are a novice hiker just looking to enjoy the experience, or an expert looking for a challenge, we have a trail for you! The trails are long enough to get the full experience, but also give you enough time to make it back before your next meal or session with your group. Honor’s Haven offers guided hikes with our naturalist or the option to take the trip on your own. The trail is about a mile and usually takes 40 minutes one way. Approximately 2 hours round trip.

Yellow Trail

The Yellow trail is an easy to moderate trail. At the beginning of the trail there is one semi-steep incline, but once over it the trail is pretty easy. There are few benches to sit on and rest or meditate and you will find a few interesting trees some of them we named like “Love tree” and “Dragon tree”. Walking the yellow trail you will encounter a forest filled with maple, sycamore and pine trees among many others. You will encounter a very curious point in the forest where no more pine trees grow. When you reach this point you are nearing the “Mago” tree. (0.3 Mile, 40min ~ 1 hour for round trip)

Orange Trail

“Mago” means “Mother Earth”. Mago tree is the biggest and most majestic tree of our forest and is the most perfect place for meditation. You will see a circle of rock and log seats around her for your comfort. Sit on one of them and close your eyes and listen to your voice from inside!!!

From the other side of the Mago tree you can catch the orange trail.
You will find that this is a very short trail. Part of this trail runs parallel to a beautiful babbling brook before connecting with the Red trail. (0.1 Mile, 5~10 Min)

Red Trail

This trail runs somewhat parallel to the Yellow trail, only farther up the hill. It is a more challenging and gives more of a workout than the Yellow trail. Being higher up, it gives a view of the magnificent, near vertical, slabs of rock which populate this area. On the lowest part of the trail it passes through a verdant fern bed. Be sure to look for the woodchuck hideout along the way. Eventually it connects to the Yellow trail.

Many birds and animals populate these woods. While one may not always see deer, turkey, or other wildlife, evidence of their presence can often be seen by their tracks (deer especially seems to like the Red trail), or their scratching in the leaves looking for acorns or other food. (0.3Mile)