A long “outer loop” can be made by taking the red or orange trails from the parking lot to the cottage clearing, then the blue trail to the right behind the abandoned house until it joins the red trail near the northern edge of the park. Continue straight (roughly southwest) on the red trail to the high point of the park, where it bends left (southeast) and returns to the parking lot. Interior trails within this outer loop can be combined to make shorter walks.


Ample parking lot off Snowden Lane.

The woods are a diversified forest of oak, tulip, red maple, and sweetgum trees, the result of natural succession in areas earlier disturbed by farming and timber cutting. There is also a beech grove, with flowering dogwoods in the understory, and a white pine grove near the parking lot, planted in the 1930’s but damaged by a severe wind and snow storm in 1993. Shrubs include spicebush in wet areas, maple-leafed viburnum in better drained areas. Spring sees may apple throughout the forest, and jack-in-the pulpits where it is wet. Woodland asters are widespread in the fall. Warblers and thrushes can be spotted, and the great horned owl and Eastern screech owl are reportedly in residence.

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