2020-08-05: West Road

I walked a loop in southwest Greenville earlier this month, covering a number of roads west of Greenville Center and Place Corners. This is a particularly rural section of the town, with only a handful of farms and very few houses. The route encircled King Hill, one of Greenville's two formally named hills; the hilly terrain blocked any long-distance views, so there weren't a lot of mountains along this loop. The length was about 6.7 miles, notably shorter than my usual roadwalks, but covered a large number of small roads.

Roads walked: NY-81, CR-35/West Road, CR-41, Drake Hill Road, King Hill Road, King Hill-Earlton Road, Rolling Hill Road, Surprise Result Road, Waldron Road

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The steep north slope of King Hill rises behind the abandoned farmhouse where I parked.

ATV tracks run through a hayfield west of Greenville Center.

An old tree eeks out a life in the middle of a steep field.

Windham's familiar silhouette rises above an abandoned shed along West Road.

A very close picture of algae on a stagnant pond, showing tiny leaves of tiny plants that grow floating on the water.

This footbridge crosses a sizable farm pond that ends just south of West Road.

This whole area is characterized by its many open fields.

This centuries-old cemetery along Route 41 has only two inscribed tombstones that I could find; the other markers are all just upright stones.

A bee grabs some late summer nectar from freshly blooming goldenrod.

The closest picture of a deer I've yet taken. This specimen, hiding in the bushes in Place Corners, hoped that if it stayed still, I would walk away, which eventually I did.

An old barn sits roughly in the middle of another hilly field. This is the closest one could get to a 'downtown' Place Corners.

This unnamed lake at the crossing of Waldron and Rolling Hill Roads was over half covered in lilypads.

A close shot of a lilypad flower, one of many in bloom on the lake.

View from the low point on Rolling Hill Road. As its name would suggest, the road heads over two hills and the flat col between them.

Stoppel Point makes a brief appearance, peeking over the southern forest on Rolling Hill Road.

A view from the crest of the second hill towards some distant tower. This may be located at the Wayne Delp Airport, five miles away in New Baltimore, but I can't be sure.

Wide, open swampland lines the west side of Surprise Result Road.

View of some old farm building along King Hill-Earlton Road.

A view north from King Hill Road towards some hills in Albany County.

ATV tracks line the east slope of King Hill.

A blue dragonfly rests on the pavement near where I parked. Dragonflies are proving very difficult to identify, so I can't say for sure what type it is.