The “Ho Chi Minh” Trail At 19th Street, a bridge with a steam pipe overhead leads to a pedestrian trail up the hillside. The trail was built about 1930 to provide access between tennis courts along Boulder Creek and the Women’s Gymnasium (now the Clare Small Arts and Sciences Building). The tennis courts were flooded in winter to provide a skating rink and a stone warming hut was built. This was not such a good idea: the ice damaged the surface of the court, and the facility was abandoned. The ice rink was removed and revegetated in the late 1980s, but ruins of the warming hut remain. This trail up the hillside now serves as a pedestrian link between student housing north of the creek and the Main Campus. It was nicknamed the “Ho Chi Minh” trail after the often-bombed, overgrown trail infamous from the Vietnam War.
"Ho Chi Minh" Trail
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