The other day I was hiking around the open space along Laurel Creek when, for reasons I won't go into, I found myself on an obscure, barely maintained path I'd never taken before. To be honest, I was afraid I'd wandered out of the open space and into private property. (It's been known to happen!) I decided to follow the trail to see where it ended up. I found a very carefully hidden trailhead, yet with a sign meant for no one assuring me that the trail was part of the open space.
I've seen this kind of trailhead before, but it always intrigues me. It uses an obviously intentional technique to provide undeniably legal public access to a trail in a way that leaves no sense whatsoever to the public that there's a trail there to be accessed. Without a cache, you'd never know it was here. Indeed, even with the cache, the trail itself might be hard to locate if they “forget” to keep it mowed. Originally I was thinking of making this some kind of puzzle cache where I posted the parking coordinates on the street and made your job to locate the actual trailhead 50 feet away. But in the end, I decided that that would be just too hard and mean, so instead I've pointed directly at the cache itself.
Enjoy this trailhead that you're not supposed to find.