Today we parked at the southern end of Prospect Point Preserve, on Florida Avenue, crossed the basketball courts and entered the forest on a nice gravel and dirt path which began at a kiosk announcing the "James Leach Boardwalk Trail, Prospect Point Preserve". You won't see a single boardwalk in here, though. The future plan is to build a boardwalk where that stone bridge is. Hence the name of the trail. Along the way to Liffy, we visited the lake north of Terry Drive, then continued north to the stone bridge and Liffy Island. There are no blazed trails on the island, but we were able to follow a trace of a path, in the clockwise direction, for the majority of the time we were there. We passed three fire rings along the way, as well as a rope tied to a tree branch for launching yourself into the lake, so there is still life here, most likely during the summer. After Liffy Island we intended to continue to Prospect Point Road and do the northern-most segment of the Lake Hopatcong trail, the part that we didn't get a chance to do last month. But the two paths shown on NYNJTC Map #126 were impassable. One was flooded, and the other was marred by blowdowns. We probably could have done it, but it would have taken longer than we had the time for. So we turned and headed back to the car, taking a parallel trail for part of the way back to the car.

You can see our track here. Total distance hiked today was 4 miles in 2 1/2 hours.