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We had heard there was an easy but lovely nature trail in Calcium, NY, so we finally made the half-hour trip from camp to check it out. The James R. Kanik trail is a little over two miles long (one way) and is a well kept trail made of small gravel stones.
It includes several wooden bridges overlooking wetland areas, benches along the way, picnic tables, and fitness equipment with instructions signs.
There is plenty of wildlife to see and hear along the way.
The trail is open for year-round public use, free of charge. It was renamed to Kanik Nature Trail in 2010 for James R. Kanik, first chairman and CEO of the Development Authority of the North Country (DANC) which manages this trail. The trail is built in the Army Sewer Line right-of-way. It parallels U.S. Route 11 near the hamlet of Calcium and has two well-marked access points, including one right on Rt 11, and parking lots at either end.
Directions: If you are heading
out of Watertown go out Route 11 until you find the Patterson Road on the
right. The entrance to the trail will be just past this. Or you may continue
out Route 11 until you reach Calcium and then take a right into Calcium on the
Sanford Corners Road. Another parking lot is a little ways up that road on the
right near the fire station.
For more about the trail (and a
trail map) you can visit the DANC website at https://www.danc.org/calcium-trail
Be sure to see...
Hiking the Thousand Islands...Introduction
Hiking the Thousand Islands...Foster Blake Woods Preserve
Hiking the Thousand Islands...Grand Lake Reserve
Hiking the Thousand Islands...Kanik Nature Trail
Hiking the Thousand Islands...Lonesome Bay State Forest
Hiking the Thousand Islands...Red Lake Indian River Trail
Hiking the Thousand Islands...Redwood Hill Preserve
Hiking the Thousand Islands...Sissy Danforth Rivergate Trail
