Zinzendorf Park Trail

TRAIL MAP: Zinzendorf Park Trail

The first trail in Salemtowne was a part of Zinzendorf Park, named for Count von Zinzendorf, a Moravian patron in the 1700s. The trail was located on the south side of the campus along Indiana Avenue, starting near the Resident Gate, which was the original entrance to Salemtowne. It led alongside Indiana Avenue to the adjacent Babcock property perimeter fence, then north down the hill alongside the fence line to the backside of the upper Wachovia Village cottages, then it turned westward behind the cottages, and then back to the south up the hill until it joined itself and completed a loop through a wooded park area.

The Indiana Avenue side of the trail is all that remains of the park since the construction of Babcock Drive to access the original Babcock House and the newly constructed Babcock Health Center required cutting through the hillside and destroying the park. The remaining section of the paved trail starts across Salemtowne Drive in front of the Vogler Building parking lot and leads eastward up the hill past a small gazebo with seating, donated in 1989 by the Clara Siewers Service League, and past the Zinzendorf Park Garden. The trail changes to grass for about 25 feet and then is paved again as it leads east and then turns down the hill along a wood fence. Halfway down the hill, the paved trail ends and you must walk down the remainder of the hill on the grass to Babcock Drive just opposite the sidewalk that leads down to The Woodlands; the hill is not steep in this area.

Instead of heading down the hill on the paved trail, as the trail curves to head down the hill, you can turn right and walk through a short, wide gap in the trees and enter the large grassy area that extends from Babcock Drive in front of Woodlands South to the perimeter fence along Indiana Avenue.