Tag: #hiking

Wire Mill Road

I recently walked the entire length of Wire Mill Road. I enjoy walking this road.  It is definitely a country road. It is challenging to walk. There are no sidewalks and in some parts of the road it becomes very narrow.

My walk started at the High Ridge Entrance. I have the Rippowam River on my left and I soon approach the tennis courts and Vodka Alley. I call it Vodka Alley because there were Vodka bottles along that stretch. I finally went with a bag and picked up 52 bottles.

Since then, I have not found many Vodka bottles at that point.  I may have to change the name I gave to it.

The road certainly gives a country look.  As I mentioned, the river is on the left side and houses are on the right side. The river meanders to the left and houses start to appear on the left side.

There is a beautiful stone wall. I feel that is the most artistic stone wall in Stamford.

Next up is a dumping ground for rocks. They are all over the place and most of them are good sized. I assume a glacier melted here and left all these rocks.

Civilization rears it ugly noise.  I hear the cars from the Merritt parkway way before I can see the parkway.

There are many beautiful and old houses on the road.

There is a beautiful stone house on the road.  There are a few stone houses in Stamford, mainly in North Stamford. They are all worth viewing at some point.

As I have said Stamford is the city of rock and water.

Wire Mill has plenty of both.

At this point you can take a bus to either end and walk the road. I believe they are going to be replacing a bridge soon and the road will be closed at that spot.

Wire Mill Road. One of many nice roads to walk in Stamford.

Zig Zag to the Point

My wife does not like to walk in NYC with me. I zig zag.  When I leave Grand Central Terminal, I don’t go north then west, I go north a little bit then west then north. You know, zig zag.

The other day I left Stamford on the local train to NYC, and I got off the train at Fordham in the Bronx. My destination was the Hunts Point Produce Market at Hunts Point.

As usual I had consulted maps and had a general idea of my route. I was going to work my way east to the Bronx River and follow the river south to the point.

All I could say was it was extreme zig zagging. I went through Arthur Ave, skirted around the Bronx Zoo arriving at the river.

There was a path I could follow for a while. That ended and I had to cross over to the other side of the river and then look to where I could cross the river again.

It took 90 minutes of walking to arrive at the Hunts Point Produce Market.

The Market is huge. There are three buildings, each about 2,000 feet.  Lots of activity. I had to pay $5.00 to get into the facility.

It is mainly wholesale. I am not sure if you can even buy individual produce.  Needless to say, I won’t be going back there again.

One thing I have noticed when I walk through the Industrial parts of the Bronx are car repair shops. There must be hundreds of repair shops in the Bronx.