9.6 miles of hiking • 750' elevation gain •
In keeping with hiking on knee friendly trails, we went to Stub Stewart State Park. We've only been there once and all I remembered was being on a paved trail. This trail was the Banks to Vernonia trail. It turns out that this trail system is quite extensive and will take many visits to complete. Plenty of hikers on the Banks to Vernonia Trail but nobody on the remainder of the trail system. We're thankful that this hike was fairly easy on the knees, but my wife still had some issues and needed ibuprofen.