Date: 02/15/2020 – Distance: 4.0 mi – Elapsed Time: 2.5 hr – Ascent: 525 ft – Descent: 456 ft – Difficulty: Medium
After hiking at Whipp’s Ledges, I drove over to Worden’s Ledges. These ledges were part of an old homestead in the mid 1800s where Hiram Worden settled with his new wife. The ledges are just a short hike from the parking lot and the trail is just a short hike of less than a mile. I also continued down the hill on a bridle trail and walked a little bit of a trail called the Carriage Trail to the Brooklyn Exchange Cabin almost to State Road. I turned around and went past the bridle trail I came down, and took a trail called Ledge Lake Trail back up the hill toward Ledge Lake. Below the lake, I turned left on another bridle trail back to the Worden’s Ledges Trail and back to the parking area. Total was exactly 4 miles.
Worden’s Ledges aren’t as big as Whipp’s Ledges, however there are some interesting carving in the rock created by Hiram’s son-in-law, Noble Stuart, who lived on the land in the early 1900s with his wife, Hiram’s daughter Nettie. Her name is carved into one of the stones. Other carvings include several faces, a clipper ship, and the most stunning of all, a sphynx, which would greet you as you enter the ledges going clockwise. All of the carvings are grouped near the center of the cliffs.
Waypoints:
- Parking – N41° 12.153′ W81° 43.083′
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