Durand Eastman Park

Visited June 11, 2022

Park Entrance: I used Google Maps: Durand Eastman Park, 1200 Kings Highway N, Rochester, NY 14617 which brought me to the main entrance for picnic shelters: Log Cabin Road.

72 degrees Fahrenheit, with a brief temperature drop when rain and hail fell, 11:50 AM - 3:00 PM in the park (2:00-3:00 for the hike)

Restroom facilities are available near the picnic shelters. Today my post can only comment on the area near the Acorn picnic shelter. The single person toilet stall was clean and functional.

Dogs should be leashed and their people should pick up after them. This is a carryout park so there will be no trash bins for the poo bags. Come prepared to take your trash and your pup's trash home.

The Eastman Lake Trail (orange trail) is marked as being 1.5 miles. I did not see any today but I remember seeing poison ivy and jewel weed on geocaching visits in 2006-8. It was nice to visit this park again and I hope I make time to visit it again sooner than since my last visit. It is a beautiful park and even on this beautiful June day, there were times that my husband and I had the trail to ourselves. We passed a group of scouts, a small group of military personnel in BDU, a dad with his daughter, and a man with his very happy pit bull.

The trail surface is natural. There were damp spots because of recent rain but no notable mud to slog through.

Parking: I was there for an event at the Acorn picnic shelter so I was parked there but the map shows some parking choices near the trail.

I did not see any trash on these trails except for broken glass so if you like to leave the place better than you found it, bring thick gloves and a paper bag or durable container for the glass.

There were a few mosquitos out in the humidity today. In the few moments that I was off trail to find a geocache, I picked up a tick so dress and spray accordingly.

I saw robins, a heron, and a duck with her ducklings. There were a variety of tree species including oaks and maples. At the lake edge, there are cat tails that should be very pretty later this summer.

We first discovered this park while geocaching and we found one today just off Log Cabin Road. For more information, look at www.geocaching.com for more information about this fun hobby.

Park website which includes a map of the trails: https://www.monroecounty.gov/parks-durandeastman

The Park Map includes references that are more helpful than the trail map: https://www.monroecounty.gov/files/parks/Maps/DurandEastman.pdf