A beautiful trail loop with lots of educational signs of plant description. It also connects you to a beautiful section of South Valley Trail along the Quantico Creek. Highly recommended when you visit the park

Park is very clean clean and accessible. There is plenty of parking and nice, easy hikes.

Very beautiful, not a difficult trail and plenty of areas to break off onto other trails. I quite enjoyed going during the fall and walking on all of the leaves.

These are pictures from the Laurel Loop Trail, Birch Bluff Trail, and North Valley trail. Wonderful hike!

Twice a year when driving to Florida, Prince William Forest Park is one of our stops to take a few mile walk. We have done different trails in the park but the Laurel Loop Trail is only 1.2 miles. We have also taken the Birch Bluff Trail which adds 1.8 miles and connects back up with Laurel Loop Trail. I’ve had a hard time finding the exact starting point. It’s marked with a little marker off the parking lot that is to the east of the visitor center building. The website for this trail says “Access the trail from the Pine Grove Picnic Area by parking near the picnic area's bathrooms. Walk behind the bathrooms and face the forest to see the trailhead.” Make sure you take a picture of the trail map or you grab a trail map from the visitor center. Trail signage is good once you get to the trail head. Laurel Loop Trail isn’t really a loop as it starts and ends at different locations but both are close to the visitor center. While here also check out the .2 mile Piedmont Forest Trail which you will walk past in the parking lot at the western trailhead.

A great trail with plenty of beautiful sights to offer! I would recommend it for anyone looking to get out or newer hikers.

Lovely trail. We strayed a little bit, but it was quiet and quiant. It follows Quantico Creek for a bit and then goes back up the hill towards the visitor center. It's definitely not for bikes, but there are other trails in the park for bikes.

Great trail! The middle part of the trail is all along a serene creek. We went closer to 5 and there were a few runners but not anyone else on the trail. There's a simple bridge and then you go by the old suspension bridge. It's really beautiful! Although, it's longer than expected. I think the loop was closer to 2 miles than 1.4.

This trail is great for beginners and kid friendly. It is easy to tack on extra hiking time from this trail as it connects to Orenda and Birch Bluff and has easy access to the South Valley Trail as well. Beautiful place to get your daily walk in.

VEHICLE BREAK-IN’S happen here, in a National Park. 😔 The forest is absolutely beautiful and we had a wonderful time hiking, until we came back to the parking lot to find the passenger side window shattered on one family’s car and evidence of another car having been broken into. Luckily one of our vehicles was intact and we were able to get all the kids home safely. I expect this sort of thing to happen anywhere, but you hope in a National Park (where you pay to enter) there would be at least a little reassurance that park rangers are around, etc. 👎