1. Start at the Clifton Coffee Mill parking lot.
2. Turn right from the parking lot onto Main St.
3. Follow Main St through the stop sign where it becomes Kincheloe St.
4. Follow Kincheloe for approximately 2 miles until you reach the parking lot for the soccer fields.  NOTE: a water station may be located here..
5. Turn right into the parking lot and then immediately left.
6. Follow a gravel drive through the soccer fields watching for blue blazes on the sign posts.
7. At the end of the gravel drive, veer left and turn right through the opening--stay on the grass trail following the blue blazes.
8. Follow the grass trail (and blue blazes) into the woods and then alongside  the Occoquan river-- where there will be a couple of small rock scrambles.
9. When the trail turns sharply to the right at a small creek bed, follow the trail uphill instead of continuing straight across the bed.
10. Continue uphill to the parking lot at Hemlock Overlook Park. NOTE: a water station may be located here..
11. At the parking lot, continue straight upwards on Yates Ford Rd.
12. After the steep uphill just past the cabin on the right look for a  small gravel road marked 'Private' (this will look like a driveway, not a road).
13. Turn right on the gravel driveway.
14. Follow the gravel driveway until it dead ends and then continue straight down the dry creek bed.
15. Continue following the dry creekbed until it crosses a stream and becomes a proper trail.
16. Follow this trail to the first junction and make a left at the blue blaze.
17. Follow the blue blazes again until you have reached the parking lot at the soccer fields.
18. Turn left from the parking lot onto Kincheloe St.
19. Follow Kincheloe St for approximately 2 miles until you are back at the coffee shop.

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