Sag Harbor: Northwest Trail
- Distance: Don’t know; use your watch.
- Type: Out-and-back.
- Surface: Very nice, soft, with stretches of light sand.
- Hilliness: Lots of quick up and downs.
- Other: Lots of quick, slalom-like turns around trees.
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From Sag Harbor or East Hampton, there is a great trail. It is pretty narrow with a lot of ups-and-downs and quick slalom-like turns. I bought a map at BikeHampton in Sag. One caveat: this is a heavy-tick area, and thus has Lyme Disease potential. At peak periods, wear high socks and use a tick repellant; I got it at BikeHampton. Also search for ticks when you finish.
| From 114From Two Holes These maps are not as precise as I would like; I can’t quite see the trail. But it is easy to follow with a couple of twists at road crossings, which I’ve tried to show. It goes further north than this. |
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| The Trail Entrance from Route 114 |
There are several spots to pick up this trail. The trail itself is easy to follow and is very well marked with yellow triangles and a white vertical bar. In the picture, you can see the triangles. One place to get on is right on Route 114, which is where is start on this map. This is exactly 2.0 miles from the Mobil station on 114 as you leave Sag (past Swamp Road and the turn to the East Hampton Airport), to your left, at Edwards Hole Road, which is unpaved. There’s space for a couple of cars.
Alternatively, from Sag you turn onto Swamp Road, take the first paved right – Two Holes Water Road – and shortly thereafter you see a small lake to the left, with a parking area to the left for three or four cars. This is where you park. On this Google satellite image, these are the small and smaller lakes up and to the right, here. If you go this way, shortly after you enter the trail you want intersects the trail you’re on. Take the left. When you cross a street after paralleling a driveway, the trail continues across and to your right. At the next street, it is across and to your left, and to the left of Phoebe Scoy Highway.
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| When in Sag, the place to go for great Italian take-out is Espresso. |
A nice stretch is actually when you come back. Where you turned onto this trail at the beginning, you can stay on it instead of turning towards that small lake. You cross Two Holes Water Road, and just follow it all the way to Route 114, and then double back. This stretch is full of quick up-and-downs and turns.
This run brings out the kid in you.
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A Local Track:: A ham-string injury kept me from testing it, but there is a black all-weather track at East Hampton High School. It is on Long Lane north of Route 27. Long Lane happens to be the name that Two Holes Water Road changes to when it approaches East Hampton.
Last edited on ... May 10, 2006
