Historic Corn Trail
A WILDERNESS WALKING ADVENTURE
The Corn Trail starts at the top of the Clyde Mountain and descends through wilderness finishing at the head of the Bolero Valley.
Early settlers pioneered the trail during the 1830's to trade produce  on the Southern Tablelands.
The main crop carried was corn, grown in the fertile valley and transported by pack-horse usually led by womenfolk.
The trail was also used to bring cattle from the tablelands for coastal agistment and by prospectors hopeful of striking it rich in the goldfields along the Buckenbowra River and at Araluen.
In 1854, another route was opened over the Clyde Mountain roughly following the present Kings Highway which has led to the gradual decline in the use of the Corn Trail. By the 1920's the trail had become completely overgrown and very difficult to find.
During World War 2, the Army reconnoitered the trail, researching alternative routes over the mountain in case of enemy invasion.
In 1987, a grant was allocated to a local group of historians to plot, reconstruct and research the trail.		  

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