Percy Warner Park-Warner Woods Trail

After the Easter holiday, I continue my exploration of Nashville’s Warner Parks. Today I chose the larger. Percy Warner Park is over 2000 acres of mixed use (mainly wilderness) park off Highway 100 between Belle Meade and Bellevue in Nashville.

Trail: Warner Woods Trail
Distance: 2.5 miles
Max Elevation: 915 feet
Total Elevation climb: 519 feet
Trail Type: single track dirt
Temperature: 40s, cloudy and really cold for April
Time: 1 hour moving with 30 minutes of lolly gagging
Significant Features: just forest, some views of Nashville through the leafless trees

Despite the really cold weather we had, I had a real “hoot”. The Warner Woods trail is really that… woods. I wandered through oak and maple stands and lots of Mayapple and Honeysuckle. The highlight was this owl I got to see. He just sat there until I got too close. I’ve had the opportunity to see them in the park before along with a copious amount of deer.