The second parking area from the entrance is aligned along the paved path and from there you can head southeast a couple hundred yards to pick up the Meadows Trail. This trail descends into an open meadow with a handful of disc golf cages scattered about. Side trails head to the cages but the main path is easy to follow and at Mile 0.3 ascends to the junction with Hidden Lake Trail. Head west (left) to enter the woods and quickly arrive at Hidden Lake. This scenic body of water is undeveloped and ringed by a marshy shoreline, thus attracting a fair amount of wildlife.

Hidden Lake Trail skirts the south end of its namesake lake to a spur that leads to Lake Drive (Mile 0.6) and then along it’s west bank. Here you’ll be following a low ridge with Hidden Lake on one side and the West Branch of Silver Lake on the other, putting watery views of both sides of you. Large pines hugging the trail and a red barn across the water add to the park’s most scenic stretch of trail.  At the junction with the Silver Lake Trail, you can head right to quickly reach a bench overlooking Hidden Lake.

Silver Lake Trail leads further north along the larger lake, passing a short spur to the shoreline along the way. At one time West Branch was part of the much larger Silver Lake to the south but is now totally enclosed and, like Hidden Lake, much of it is shallow and marshy. Beyond the spur you make a steep but quick climb to the paved path, reached at Mile 1.3. Head south (right) to return to the parking area, passing the sledding hill along the way.