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Hopkins Forest is a 2500 acre reserve extending into Massachussets, Vermont, and New York. There are 15 miles of hiking trails; most popular are a 1.6 mile lower loop and a 2.6 mile upper loop that start just past the [[#Rosenburg Center|Rosenburg Center]]. Bicycles are prohibited. These trails are groomed for [[cross-country skiing]] in the winter (when there's sufficient snow), though they can be dangerous in icy conditions for inexperienced skiiers because of the long downhill stretches.
==Getting there==
From the Williams Campus, go north on Route 7. Turn left on Bulkley Street (0.3 miles past the rotary); follow Bulkley Street for 0.75 miles until it ends at the junction with Northwest Hill Road. Turn right onto Northwest Hill Road. The entrance to the forest is 100 yards down the road and is marked by a wooden sign.
:Estimated driving times: 5 minutes
==What's ThereFacilities== ===Rosenburg Center===There are 15 miles The Rosenburg Center is the main building just inside the entrance to the forest and hosts many of hiking trails the [[#Events|events]] that take place in the forest; most popular are . ===Canopy walkway=== The HMF Canopy Walkway was the first in North America, though a 1half-dozen others have sprung up since then. Meg Lowman '76 [http://www.canopymeg.6 mile lower loop and a 2com/] was instrumental in its creation.6 mile upper loop ===Outing Club cabin=== ==Events==The Hopkins Memorial Forest sponsors many events throughout the year that start just past are open to the public, usually for free, and are announced in the [[Daily Messages]] or by the Rosenburg [[Centerfor Environmental Studies|CES]] [[listserve]]. Especially popular are the yearly Hopkins Memorial Forest [[#Fall Festival|Fall Festival]] held in late September and [[#Maple Sugar Days|Maple Sugar Days]] in early April. These trails There are groomed for crossalso opportunities to participate in banding owls, finding salamanders and frogs, and animal tracking. ===Fall Festival=== The fall festival gathers locally skilled people to demonstrate and teach skills like shake-country skiing in splitting and log cutting, and to share homemade treats of the winter season like hot cider and apple butter on homemade bread (when there's sufficient snowfor the past many years brought and doled out by the same very jovial woman), though they can be dangerous . Trained students open the [[#canopy walkway|canopy walkway]] to allow people of all ages to walk a rope bridge high in icy conditions for inexperienced skiiers because of the long downhill stretchestrees. No bicycles, pleaseSome years have had live contradance music played by local musicians in the old Moon barn.
==See also==
*The official [http://www.williams.edu/CES/hopkins.htm Hopkins Forest Page] on the [[Center for Environmental Studies]] website.
