Let’s Move Outside! on Corry’s Simple Trail of Pleasures

The Let’s Move Outside! program brought us to Mead Park in Corry, PA, on a Sunday morning, which was predicted to grow into a sweltering day. I hadn’t been to Corry in quite a few years, and was surprised to learn that it is the second-largest city in Erie County. The trail starts at Mead Park, 48 acres with tennis courts, a basketball court, an amphitheater, a playground, a lake, and numerous picnic shelters sprinkled throughout the grounds.

Corry Dogs — Nora and Nutmeg at the Corry Trail Marker

If Nutmeg and Nora, our Cairn Terrier rescues, could talk, they’d probably tell you that Corry’s Trail of Simple Pleasures should be named Corry’s Trail of Complex Pleasures. The experience was fun, but the trail map was a bit confusing, and we had a difficult time finding the pass key, necessary to show we completed another trail in the Let’s Move Outside! program. At the end of the hike, I remarked to Husband Jim that I was not going to be a happy hiker if we walked all that way and didn’t have a pass key to show for it.

Before starting out on the hike, we met a family that had just completed the trail. They warned us that the map had some accuracy issues. At some point during the conversation, the woman pointed in the distance, referring to the Corry pass key. So later, when we were confused and couldn’t find it, we at least knew that it existed. The woman said that she had been viewing the map on her phone, and that could be part of the reason she had trouble deciphering it. After our experience, I can tell you that the map does have a couple of issues.

Here are some tips, if you’re planning to walk this trail. The map doesn’t label the street between Mead and Center. Plus, it depicts the street as being located before you pass the Corry Historical Museum. Unless it’s a path that we missed, you’re really looking for the street just after the museum, which is called Elk Street.

During our walk on Center Street, we saw numerous antique shops and historic buildings dating from the 19th century.

The biggest tip that will help you is related to the point at which you re-enter Mead Park. The map shows you traversing a path that is placed after you pass the historical museum. The trail is actually a dirt road, which is located just before the baseball field. If you take that road and follow the shape of the trail on the map, you’ll be just fine.

We, of course, didn’t have the above tips and wandered around a while before we found the pass key. After three miles of walking up and down hills, a scavenger hunt wasn’t something we were looking for. I decided to say a quick prayer to St. Anthony, who’s in charge of lost items, and quit stressing about it. A few moments later, Jim said, “There it is.”