Gunpowder Creek Nature Park

Great outdoor hiking. Spoiler alert 📢
If you are hiking down into a valley eventually you will have to hike back out. The Hill down and back up is no joke. All and all its we'll worth the blood ,sweat , and tears!

Beautiful walking trails that lead to gun powder creek, dog friendly, great spot to take a couple of friends and your dogs and hike the trails and walk the creek

Beautiful area. Children enjoyed trail, bathrooms were closed and parking lot full for two hours. We had a good time.

Place has some groomed hiking trails either of gravel, or dirt, and at times there was deep sand. I don't know what the trails are rated but I would give it a moderate to difficult rating for the route we followed. I wouldn't bring a wheel chair to use as it starts with a large, steep, graveled trail going down for what seems forever. And coming back up is exhausting to walk. I also wouldn't recommend taking young children or toddlers.

There are several paths off the main trail. I also saw a Roman style theatre seating as we descended the first hill.

There were several branches of Gunpowder Creek which wound it's way through the bottoms of the area. Some areas of dry ground were large islands. There were many large, deep areas of water (couldn't see bottom and current was swift), and many very quick moving shallow areas (less than 2 ft deep). Beautiful and scenic, but not a place I'd take someone who didn't swim. On an island across a very large, deep pool of water I could see part of ruins of an old rock wall.

I saw four fishermen while there and was told that the Creek was regularly stocked with trout.

There is a nice parking area at the top of the park at the entrance. This parking area is next to a playground and the only public bathrooms here, so use them before your venture.

Nice trail,great play area for young children, small parking area app.10 spots.hike starts going down a semi steep trail and levels off by the creek.
Trail loops back to parking lot