Honor Heights Park Trails

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Walking, running or riding bikes on the trails at Honor Heights Park is a great way to get outside this weekend. 

Here's the scoop on all the options - Bresser is my favorite!
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With three paved plus two primitive walking and bicycle trails, there is something for everyone at Honor Heights Park. Amenities include restrooms and water fountains.
The Walk, Run or Ride the Trails Week from March 27 to April 2 will have free, organized group events at Honor Heights Park. 
You can visit the trails on your own, too. Maps are online to print or use on your phone at www.Muskogeeparks.org/trails.
Woodland Garden Trail is a concrete .28-mile (round trip) stroll through what was called the White Garden, with several benches along the way. Park on the 48th Street side of the park.
Stem Beach Trail also is paved. The two access points are across the street from the Woodland Garden Trail and at the Papilion butterfly garden. The .66-mile trail circles around the pond with benches along the way.
Arboretum Trail is a shady, paved .63-mile stroll through 400 trees, many of which are in bloom. Park across the street from the butterfly house and use either entrance into the arboretum.
Audubon Nature Trail is a shaded, unpaved, primitive, half-mile mile walk or bike ride. It is accessible from Buffalo Drive, the Arboretum Trail, and the Henry Bresser Trail.
Both of the primitive trails are somewhat challenging, single file paths, with changes in elevation, tree roots, rocks and poison ivy along the way.
Henry Bresser Nature Trail has several access points. Depending on your start and end location, you can walk a third of a mile from the former rose garden to the Five Civilized Tribes Museum parking lot, or you can go over a mile if you continue to walk past the museum parking lot.
One easy-to-locate trailhead onto the Henry Bresser Nature Trail is across the road from the former rose garden parking lot. Walk up the native stone staircase and you will see a Works Progress Administration-era picnic bench on the right. The trail is on the left.
Soon after starting the trail, there is a rock staircase on the right that goes up the hill to a picnic bench then continues up to Honor Heights Drive. The staircase is steep and somewhat overgrown.
If you stay on Bresser Trail, you can take a left, go downhill, turn right and connect with the Audubon Trail, walking to the Buffalo Drive hairpin. Stay on Bresser Trail and you will pass several stone picnic tables and end at Honor Heights Drive. Look for flowering periwinkle vines, forsythia and old oak trees along the way.
Continue your walk through the museum parking lot and turn right onto the trail. Take the stone staircase down to the pavilion at the top of the waterfall. From there you can walk down the waterfall steps or take one of the primitive paths that lead away from the pavilion to your left and right.
All three paths terminate at Honor Heights Drive. Cross the road and turn right to reconnect with Bresser Trail back to the parking lot. The complete loop takes less than an hour at a leisurely pace.
Reach Molly Day at mollyday1@gmail.com.
This story is the second of a three-part series about Walk, Run or Ride the Trails Week.
Learn more
For information about the Walk, Run or Ride the Trails Week activities: Doug Walton, (918) 683-0321; or Brooke Hall, (918) 684-6302, ext. 1477.


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