Last Wednesday the weather was pretty nice, so me and two of my roommates decided to go hiking at Strouds Run State Park. We hiked the Homestead Trail which was 1.9 mi. Overall the hike was not too challenging, I was struggling a little in the beginning but then I was good to go. The only down side was it rained earlier in the week, so the beginning of the trail was a little on the muddy side. Once we got higher up on the hill it wasn’t too bad though.
We just chose a random trail so we didn’t really know if we were hiking towards a lookout or anything like that, but once we reached the end of the trail we were surprised with an awesome view of Dow Lake. There were also some cool flat rocks to relax on and take in the view before heading back down.
When we were looking at the lake we noticed the shape of the lake looked a little strange and the beach area looked bigger than usual, so when we got back down the hill we decided to go to the beach. Once we got there we noticed that all of the water by the boat house and beach area was gone. It was pretty bizarre looking at an empty lake.
