2021-05-19: Gayhead-Earlton Road

Getting back to New York, I was very excited to return to my regime of roadwalking, especially given the fact that I only had three more walks to go in the town of Greenville. So on a surprisingly hot day in mid May, I parked my car at the Greenville-Coxsackie border and hiked a 6.3-mile loop through the hamlet of Gayhead, in the southeast corner of Greenville.

Roads Walked: CR-67, Drake Hill Road, Gayhead Earlton Road, Schoharie Turnpike, Vly Road.

A look southwest from the Schoharie Turnpike reveals the peaks of Blackhead, Black Dome, and Thomas Cole.

Power lines crisscross this part of Gayhead, seen here crossing south of Gayhead-Earlton Road towards some hills in neighboring Cairo.

Hundreds of these tiny purple flowers lined the roads throughout my walk; these smaller specimens appear to have just bloomed today.

A view down the middle of an unnamed but sizeable natural lake. The Schoharie Turnpike cuts through its northernmost portion; this view looks towards the bulk of the lake's body in Cairo, south of the road.

A view of relatively recent graves in the Gayhead Cemetery, located near a hill on Gayhead-Earlton Road.

A view south from King Hill Road, where the ten-mile distant Stoppel Point peaks briefly above the trees.

Fields and fences along the southern portion of King Hill Road.

A small buttercup blooms along the side of the road, illuminated in the afternoon sun.

Bright green foliage lines Drake Hill Road as it rolls and twists beneath the distant Mount Hayden.

The otherworldly power lines cut a gash through the forest, revealing the hillscape beneath.

The Blackhead Range seen again, this time from a farm along Drake Hill Road.

From over ten miles away, Black Dome peers through the treetops of southeastern Greenville.

A bunch of young maple leaves, still red from the spring, intersect a clear blue sky along Vly Road.

I walked Vly Road back in November, but this spring walk allowed the chance to view the Gayhead Vly with some life to it.

A much greener re-creation of this shot from last November.

Houses and buildings along Route 67 in what would be considered the 'center' of Gayhead.

Another swampy area south of the border with Cairo. The Schoharie Turnpike bisects a number of water bodies, small and large, in its long trip from Gayhead to Athens.

The eastern shore of the unnamed lake, which I walked through again on my return to the car.

This narrow passageway connects the north lobe of the shallow lake to an eastern lobe and a swampy area to the south.