Southards Pond Park — Attraction in Town of Babylon

This is a peaceful and beautiful trail that will lead to 3 different ponds depending on how far north or south you walk or cycle. If you are lucky, you will see a great number of swans in all 3 ponds as well as various birds and Mallard ducks along the way. Further north is a horse ranch, and you may even see horseback riding from time to time. It is close enough to civilization with many exits to side streets in the middle part of the trail if you get tired and need to leave. I did not give it a 5 because it does get flooded and hard to pass on foot without the proper foot gear after a night of heavy rain. Also, there are no porta potties along the trail, and I often have to choose hydration vs. urination. So plan ahead if you have young children and/or have...

A nice walk in the woods along the Carlls River. The canopy of the woods is so dense you almost never see direct sunlight on the whole trip, if you stick to the hiking trail and stay off the widder bridle path that is. Even on the bridle path it's still completely shaded, but on the hiking paths it's a small hidden green wonderland of lush swamp that lets you know what the south shore must have looked like before the post war developments. The trails go all the way from Argyll Lake to Belmont Lake State Park. Five and a half...

Very nice trails- easy to walk, run or bike. The only frustrating things are that a lot of people don’t clean up after their dog or leash their dog! dogs are frequently running up to my dog who is luckily good with other dogs. I know people with blind dogs or dogs who are not good with other dogs in their face who can’t walk the trails with their leashed dogs because other people are too irresponsible to leash their dog. I really wish they would enforce things here so everyone can...