Eales Preserve at Moosic Mountain — Attraction in Jessup

The trails out here are fantastic and varied. There are trails going through everything from heavily forested areas to open land. Each trail is fairly well marked and color coded. If you don't want to walk on meandering trails the service roads (unpaved and a bit Rocky in places) are also a good option. Something for everyone.

The conglomerate loop is a short but beautiful hike on open trail that often has you walking on the flat tops of exposed rock outcrops. You can take the loop and end up back where you started or branch off at the half way point and continue deeper into the reserve.

Bruised ego leads you through a lightly forested track that ends near Gene's trail. It also crosses a few exposed rock outcrops. You can walk the trail back, take the service road or continue on to Gene's trail.

Gene's trail is so far my favorite. It takes you through heavily forested areas with streams and natural rock walls. I've only been as far as the reservoir but it was a fantastic hike. There is an unofficial? Entrance along the road near the trail head with parking for 2 vehicles. Last time we went we parked on the shoulder...

Walked almost 9 miles with my dog. We enjoyed about 6 of them. Trails were not marked!!!! The Blueberry trail is supposed to be one trail and 2.2 miles long to the waterfall trail. Well it splits half way there! Fork in the path with BOTH Paths having blue on the trees to follow... well it took us 3.5 miles to do the 2.2 mile path. I guess I chose wrong! We decided to follow the waterfall path and try to cross through the center trails. Even found trails marked they were not on the map! Hours passed and the sky got dark.it started raining and was worried about thunderstorms... was almost ready to call 911 because my dogs harness has metal on it. Beautiful scenery but ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE TRAIL MARKINGS! One time We finally made our way out from a trail to the power lines.. what was there to guide us... an arrow pointing one direction and an arrow pointing the opposite direction... WTH... absolutely no idea where any of the trails were... just follow a dam arrow and see where it leads??? Beautiful place, to bad no one in charge of it cares to...

Gorgeous variety of scenery and trails however the trail markings are horrible. we started with the Blueberry trail and several times came to random roads not on any map; we came to a split with four "trails" but no markings so we just following the one looking most similar. we could only tell that we'd come to the waterfall trail since the trail paint went from blueish white to aqua but we still weren't sure since there were random splits everywhere. would be great now that we know where everything is but it was very confusing and didn't match the map well. at the split with the white birch trail and waterfall trail there is only a sign for the waterfall trail so you aren't exactly sure where you are. it was the first place we actually saw a real hiking sign. but the views are really incredible and I'd definitely recommend as long as you realize you may head the wrong way at times. (most of the other trails seemed...