This year’s first-day hike on High Bridge Trail will showcase its natural and historic resources on the eastern, or Prince Edward County side, of High Bridge.

Visitors should meet on Jan. 1 at the end loop of the new Camp Paradise Access Road near the picnic pads by 2 p.m. From Farmville, travel east on Rt. 460, take a left on Aspen Hill Road, pass the trail crossing, then go left on Camp Paradise Road.

Park Historian Bob Flippen will take hikers down a new Camp Paradise trail to see a rediscovered African-American cemetery, the resting place of R.R. Moton’s mother, and one of the forts that guarded High Bridge during the Civil War. The trail continues to the Appomattox River from the fort before reaching the massive brick pillars that supported the original bridge.

“Most strollers are not well suited to this terrain,” a park spokesman said.

The Friends Group for the Park will be present with refreshments.