Manchester Beach

This hike starts from the Lake Davis Wetlands/Environmental Campsite parking lot at 10:30. Just north of the town of Manchester, turn left at Kinney Road, which is signed for Manchester State Beach and the KOA campground. Past the KOA entrance to the right on Kinney Road you will pass a private road and then you will come to a park road on the right that is marked For Authorized Vehicles – ignore that sign and turn in, following around to the left for about 100 feet to a small parking area marked as the trail head for the Davis Lake/Environmental campsite. We will gather there, and then hike an established trail through the coastal scrub and grasslands to the dunes at Manchester State Beach. We will negotiate the Lake Davis wetlands to circle round the environmental campground and hike north behind the dunes to view the spring wildflowers that should be quite profuse. Lunch can be at a picnic table in the environmental campground. If hikers are willing we can take a short beach hike back to rejoin the return trail, or retrace our steps in reverse. 

Hike Leaders: Jeff & Lena