Sugar Land and Cullinan Park

Friday morning, my friend Don, and I headed from Huntington Village (Alief, Dairy Ashford) to Sugar Land.   This is a vary pleasant bike ride through quiet neighborhoods, all the way to Highway 6. there is a gap in Huntington Estates Dr, but a short ride on the grass will put you in Barrington Place, Sugar Land.

I always enjoy riding throuh Barrington Place as a speed limit sign will check my speed for me!  A little farther on was a mosque that showed we are all pretty similar

Our Baptist preacher had told us if we don't maintain social distance, he will turn this car around!

We always stop in Sugar Mill Park for water, and to watch the ducks.   It's also fun watching the toddlers and pre-schoolers try to feed/chase the ducks!

One of our favorite segments is the wonderful concrete trails in Imperial, the development that include Constellation Field.   Nicely curving, wide, sidewalks, with numerous signs warning of alligators!

Speaking of alligators, we crossed Oyster Creek and headed across Highway 6, North of Sugar Land Airport, and into Cullinan Park, a hidden gem inside suburbia.    I had seen a trail on Google Maps, so we swung onto a very scenic concrete trail that gently swept around the Southeast edge of White Lake.    Somewhere along the line, the trail narrowed to crushed granite, but was still quite navigable for this old fool.  There are little signs that advise you of the flora and fauna of the woods.   Suddenly, we found ourselves on a trail that would be a delight to some 13 year old BMXer, but which was rather frightening to a 67 year old biking neophyte.   I think I re-did my will in my head, and re-newed my relationship with Jesus, as saplilngs jumped in my way, and someone had routed the trail up and over a log by means of not-quite-enough little planks.  There was a definite feeling of being lost in the piney woods, except that clearings would always reveal a cell tower across the lake, and all along  the northern edge of the park, we were usually about 100 feet from a Sugar Land neighborhood.   But we kept going, and eventually found a trail that looked like it had been designed by park personnel, which led us back to the lake's observation point.   This is a very nicely done series of raised boardwalks over a lake that is over-growing with lilies and other water plants.   We saw a family of ducks, pretty common, but while momma was swimming, the ducklings were jumping from water lily to water lily!   Kids are kids!

Next blog will cover the cemetary we found on the Northwest side of the park.   Stay tuned.

Dan