Pipeline
This was where we decided to turn around. Instead of turning to head toward the creek, the trail seemed to follow the cleared path of a buried petroleum pipeline.
The pipeline that cuts through this patch of Ferne Clyffe State Park and through the Shawnee National Forest around it is mentioned in this article from 2015. In summary, this is a former natural gas pipeline recently retrofitted to carry petroleum with the ultimate hope that it becomes part of a 1,134 mile long network carrying oil from the Bakken Fields in North Dakota to the Gulf of Mexico.
Pipeline
This was where we decided to turn around. Instead of turning to head toward the creek, the trail seemed to follow the cleared path of a buried petroleum pipeline.
The pipeline that cuts through this patch of Ferne Clyffe State Park and through the Shawnee National Forest around it is mentioned in this article from 2015. In summary, this is a former natural gas pipeline recently retrofitted to carry petroleum with the ultimate hope that it becomes part of a 1,134 mile long network carrying oil from the Bakken Fields in North Dakota to the Gulf of Mexico.