QUICK TRAIL FACTS
- Preserve Size: 164 acres
- Trail Mileage: 1.4 miles in network
- Pets: yes
- Difficulty: easy
- Sights: old homestead, Spruce-Larch Wooded Bog
This woodlands walk makes a couple of loops through “mossy old-growth trees, bog bridges,” and a quiet forest with wetlands. It includes the impressions of an old homestead. Like many remains of 19th-century farms, all that is left on the surface is a rock-lined depression where the house or barn foundation once was. A cedar tree is growing in the center of the former structure.
The trails on the 164-acre preserve are easy and easy to follow as they wend through oaks, maples, spruce trees, firs, and cedars. If you do the outer loop, the walk is about 1.7 miles. Here are some of the habitats protected on the preserve habitats: spruce-fir forest, evergreen seepage forest, alder thicket, grass meadow, and a spruce-larch wooded bog.
Be sure not to follow a snowmobile trail that bisects the walking path at roughly 0.3 miles. This forest is protected by Crabtree Neck Land Trust, which is pursuing “large-scale conservation in this area.”
Directions: The trailhead is on the Point Road, about a mile from Route 1. It is marked with a land trust sign and has room for about two vehicles.
