Stone House Rd- Enfield. The ” Chunks ” Hike
A new addition to our west-side hike options, the Finger Lakes Land Trust has opened a new hiking trail for public use in October 2024.
The late property owner Margaret Bald left her iconic and historic stone house and surrounding lands located at the junction of Stone House Rd and Woodard Rd in the Town of Enfield to the Finger Lakes Land Trust in 2022 : Historic Stone House in Tompkins County to be Restored, Future Secured Through Preservation Agreement | Finger Lakes Land Trust (fllt.org) , Since acquiring the property the Land Trust has created a loop trail with a connector trail to the Finger Lakes Trail.
Ultimately the Land Trust property on which the trail through what is now known as “Margarets Woods” travels through, and the access trail towards the state park, will be taken over by the Office of State Parks and Historic Preservation and absorbed into Robert Treman State Park.
Google map link to Margarets Wood parking lot: Margaret’s Woods – Google Maps
On this hike we’ll park at the Margarets Woods parking lot, the new loop trail on Stone House Rd adjacent to the Stone House residence. The lot is small, so some cars may need to park on the shoulder of Stone House Rd. We’ll start by hiking the Margarets Woods Loop, after which we’ll take the connector trail to the Finger Lakes Trail. Once on the FLT the hike leader can choose the groups direction of travel; either continue on the FLT across the wooden bridge to the Rim Trail into Upper Treman and hike the CCC trail from Upper Robert Treman State Park back to the cars. Or the hike leader can take the group directly into upper Treman via the CCC trail and continue the hike in a loop through the upper picnic area to the bottom of the Red Pine Trail, possibly checking out Lucifer Falls if the Gorge Trail is open, etc. The route is entirely at the hike leader’s discretion!
This hikes name came about when I was pre-hiking the route with Leigh Ann V right after Margarets Woods was opened to the public. Leigh Ann commented that the various portions of the hike: the loop through Margarets Woods, the access trail towards the state park, the CCC trail, and the loop through Upper Robert Treman, each have different qualities and attributes to them. Leigh Ann described the hike as being broken up into various ” chunks”, each “chunk” bringing its own unique attributes and qualities to the overall route. Much of the land we hike through here was active farmland just a few short decades ago, so it is currently a mix of scrub trees, gullies, streams, and longer established park property.
Robert Treman State Park map here: RobertHTremanTrailMap.pdf (ny.gov)
Finger Lakes Trail maps are available for purchase in paper or electronic formats here: Purchase Individual Maps – Fingerlakes Trail Conference. Sale of the maps supports the on-going costs of trail maintenance across the Finger Lakes Trail
Last edit: 09-15-2026 JFR