Nature Trail inside Rome, New York
Channel: Going Somewhere
Date: 2023-04-18

Amazing how popular inner-city trails with federal & state funding, and nature walks have become in the last two years. The Rome, New York Mohawk River Trail, is completely paved network. So walk, run, pedal, rollerblade. No motor vehicles of any kind(that means loud motorized bicycles and dirt bikes), are NOT-allowed. Though I have on this day, run into a few obnoxious punks on dirt bikes. Starting at the Rome fire House, and ending at the Rome Fish Hatchery. Plenty of car parking along each section of the network. You may also continue your journey on Griffiss Business Park by walking along the path on Chestnut street or Floyd avenue, which can bring you safely all the way to Rome Free Academy school. 
Lots of nature to see along the trail. Wild flowers, occasional Hogweed(over eight feet tall!). Porcupines, snakes, groundhogs, skunks, deer, possum, Fishers(anglers and the four-legged mammal), raccoons, weasels, owls, ospreys, and lots of bugs for you aspiring entomologists.
If using the trail at night, be smart and wear light-colored clothing, and a flashlight(light on phone is not proper!). 
And above all...Keep-it-clean. Too many undesirables are just lazily leaving trash. And the garbage cans for that trash, are over-filled(as are the ones in Bellamy harbor park). If there is a sign posted for private property, be respectful, and stay-off. 
Certainly is a beautiful area, best enjoyed in the mid-afternoon, during Summer, as the mosquitos, can be voracious in the morning & evening. Many maps are posted along the trail network. 
So turn-off that phone, television, computer, and get outside, and on, before, after Earth Day, bring a bag with ya and help keep the trail network clean for everyone to enjoy.