Sunday, I woke up before sunrise and started breaking camp at Merchants Millpond. It was supposed to rain and I wanted to get packed up before it started. After finishing, I took the campground spur to the picnic area and got on Lassiter Trail. A boardwalk crossed a scenic tributary of the millpond.
I was surprised there was still a good amount of fall color along the millpond.
I followed Lassiter Trail for a ways with a number of scenic views.
There was a new section of trail at the southern part of the loop with a spur that went out to a nice view of the millpond.
There was more nice fall color along here.
I continued on Lassiter Trail for a while until it split with the Fire Road.
I've never hiked the entire bike trail, so I stayed on this and hiked out to the parking area and around the loop.
It drizzled a bit, but never rained hard this morning. When I finished up the loop, I headed back to the campground and took off.
Heading west, the rain picked up and was quite heavy at times, but lightened up again. Just before Williamston, I stopped at the Kuralt Trailhead in Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge. The short Kuralt Trail led through a bottomland forest towards the river.
Some hairy bracket shelf fungi were growing on a log.
The trail ended where it started getting swampy towards the river.
The area was very pretty and I had gotten lucky stopping during a break in the rain.
After some pictures, I made the short hike back.
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