QUICK TRAIL FACTS
- Preserve Size: 164 acres
- Trail Mileage: 1.4 miles in network
- Pets: yes
- Difficulty: easy
- Sights: old homestead, forest
This woodlands walk, protected by Crabtree Neck Land Trust, makes a couple of loops through “mossy old-growth trees, bog bridges,” and a quiet forest with wetlands. It includes the remains of an old homestead. Like many crumbled ruins of 19th-century farms, all that remains is a depression where the house or barn foundation was, and the rocks used for its walls and foundation. A cedar tree is growing in the center of the former home.
The needle-lined trails on this 164-acre preserve are easy and easy to follow as they wend through oaks, firs, and cedars. If you do the outer loop, the walk is about 1.7 miles.
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…to save large, unbroken tracts of land that protect highly valued wildlife habitat and maintain the rural character of Crabtree Neck.”
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.
