Antietam Bloody Lane

We had done hike to Antietam Bloody Lane on july 21st 2018. It is located in Sharpsburg,MD.

Hike Location
Name: Antietam Bloody Lane
Distance: 52.7 miles from Herndon(approx)
Total hiking distance: 4.6 miles.
Elevation Gain: 230 ft
Hike Team:  my wife and me.

Hiking Experience: We started around 5:55 am in the morning. We reached Parking lot around 7:02 am. There was very small place for parking. Climate was pleasant and cool. We started our hiking around 7:12 am.

We crossed the road from our parking and went other side. It was a paved path and  to both sides of path there were huge grasslands. We saw plenty of buffaloes grazing. After 0.7 miles of walking on the road we reached the observation tower. We tried to reach top of the  tower, but there was big groundhog on the stairs. So we came out of the tower and continued the hike. We saw many fields around the tower. We hiked on the bloody lane and soon we reached monuement. As we continued we reached visitor center, it was on a small hill.We crossed the road to go to  the visitor center. There we saw few cannons. We informed the park ranger about the ground hog at the observation tower. We left the visitor center and came back to same road which we have crossed before and went left side of the road and then took right into the narrow trail. It is educational trail and after continuing on it for few mins trail is now Mumma farms trail. As we hiked, We saw many buffaloes grazing and small wooden bridge. There were very old type houses on the hills which were on both sides of the trails. we felt like we were in a typical old village. we reached the small stones trail, from this trail we saw the observation tower. It was like big ground covered with green grass and some trees.

We came to 3 farm trail. We had our breakfast 8:45 am on side of the trail. We saw many fields but we do not know what crops are being cultivated there. We hiked along the trail which led us through the middle of the fields. Soon the trail is covered with big trees. The climate was so good and very pleasant. we heard different voices of birds. We enjoyed those sweet sounds very much. After that we heard the voice of water as though coming from a stream, we thought that was a river. We continued and soon reached wooden bridge and saw the park ranger again. He told us that he, along with two other rangers, had driven the groundhog out of the tower and we can now go and visit the top view from the tower. we continued our hike and soon we saw highway. To cross the highway we climbed down the stairs and crossed under the highway bridge and it lead us to another trail. We again heard the water falling sound, much louder this time but we didn't saw any water flow around us. Then after 5 to 10 minutes we saw the water flowing on the small rocks. The stream was very big and beautiful , there was also a bench near the stream. We spent 10 minutes there enjoying the beautiful water stream and captured few photos. Then we saw another wooden bridge.

After that we saw big ground, a large moor and many big trees. Then we went up the trail from the bridge. While hiking through trail we entered into Sherick farm trail. We saw a deer which stared at us for almost a minute before running away. After 0.5 miles of hiking we saw grass trail ,huge trees, big ground and other side of the trail are many farms. Around 10:06 am we returned to the car parking lot from Sherick farm trail. Then we went to the observation tower in the car and went to top of the tower around 10:15 am. The view was awesome. We saw the entire place from top of the tower. There we felt so much windy. Around 10:25 am we return to the car parking and started to home around 10:30 am. We had our lunch around 11:10 am in the car. Then we filled the gas on our way. We reached home around 12:12 pm. This hiking gave us a different experience. The entire hiking was through the fields, trees and sometimes beside the river, the total hike was very much different from all hikes we had done before. We collected more awesome memories and enjoyed a lot. All is Well.
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