This is a great trail for hot sunny days. It's a nice little walk on mostly flat to hilly ground. This trail loops around through the ponderosa pines and offers accessibility to the McCarty pond and also McCarty Cabin. Both of these two attractions will be on your right, located on your way out on the trail. Easy to miss if you are not watching for them. The best way I have found to get to the cabin so far on this trail is to go to the pond and then follow the trail to the left. You'll also see the old orange water well and hand pump before you get to the cabin which will be on the hillside to your right. On the way back there are some pretty cool little rock formations of which you will have to venture just a little off the trail to see. There is a bathroom and picnic table located near the trail head. Enjoy!
McCarty Pond
Cattails on the pond. Several kinds of birds use this
area as a nesting ground.
My understanding is that the pond was man-made for the ranchers that use to graze cattle in the area before it became part of the park. Today it is used by the birds for nesting and for the horses that roam into the park. Many tourist think that the horses are wild horses natural to the park. They actually belong to someone and roam into the park through it's unfenced boundaries.
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