Peanuts Trail HIkes: Black Run Preserve: Blue Trail

The Black Run Preserve (http://blackrun.org/) is an area located within the Kings Grant II section of Evesham township defined as "open space" with a network of trails and sand roads that traverse the area. This is a region that used to have cranberry bogs and became part of the Kings Grant waste water treatment plant's aeration ponds.

Trailhead
The start point for this hike is within the Kings Grant development at the point where Kings Grant Drive changes into Crown Royal Parkway. A small dirt parking log near the dog park is adjacent to the sand road that heads South/Southwest toward Black Run. No signs indicate that this is a trail.

Blazes
The Blue trail is blazed with blue paint markers on trees sometimes with diamond shaped reflectors.

Points along the way
Along the blue trail there are a few points of noteworthiness/mileage:

0.5 Miles from the start, a small tributary road branches off to the left leading to an old rusty water tower used now as a Cell Tower
0.75 Miles from the start is a junction with the Green and Red trails
1.1 Miles from the start, the Red trail branches off to the right and passes one of the former cranberry bogs
1.5 Miles from the start, the White trail rejoins the blue trail from the right
1.6 Miles from the start, the first of 2 aeration ponds are on the left, we followed this path
1.88 Miles from the start, a variant of the Red trail branches off again and goes into the woods
2.13 Miles from the start, the Red trail dead ends at a sand road (there is another trail that extends from either side)
2.76 Miles from the start, we turned back at a junction in the Blue trail (walk back from here was 1.77 Miles)