Poleg Stream in the Yakum Park

If you have only an hour or two or if you are looking for a short, modest and leisurely trip- Poleg Stream in the Yakum Park offers you the ultimate choice. Poleg stream, which flows in the Coastal Plain and pours into the Mediterranean Sea not far from the Wingate Institute, starts its way in the Sharon Plain area, near the kibbutz of Ramat HaKovesh. Here, in this relatively organized Yakum Park, the Poleg stream flows gently. The water is admittedly not fresh water but the Poleg Stream in itself offers pastoral scenes here and there. The route will lead you to a small bridge which hangs on Poleg Stream’s southern bank. This place is named the "Roman Gate” and it is in fact an ancient opening which allowed for the drainage of the water of the Poleg Stream into the Mediterranean Sea. The route will lead you south and will climb up onto a limestone ridge which offers a beautiful observation point over the spaces of the Yakum Park and the sparkling lake in its midst. The route is fairly short and stretches over about 2 kilometers.