Ahhhh, at long last we are at the end of my backlog of New England based blog entries! (Now I’m just behind on that trip I took to North Carolina… patience my dears, patience.) I only mention this as these photos are obviously from a very wet summer’s day and not well…. now.
But back to the story! I don’t know how I found this place online or in real life. Buuuut here’s what I did to get there. I parked at what looked to be an old VFW although there was a For Sale sign so who knows who it belongs to now. There were signs everywhere saying not to park there but I saw a hiking board and was like… “Sure bud, I won’t park in your parking lot but I’m totally parking next to the hiking board which I know has to be public property…” If this option weirds you out you can also park up the road a little bit where there’s parking for the rail trail that goes by the Bruce Edes Forest. Just follow the tracks and you’ll get where you need to go.
On this particular day I was in desperate need of a good forest and this one didn’t disappoint. Although it was raining I think that just made it a little more magical. It wasn’t clear where the trail started so I just walked down the train tracks for a bit, passing an adorable little library on the way. I seriously need to start bringing copies of my books with me. I have boxes of the damn things and need to declutter. These little libraries are perfect for that.
It was a little further still before I found the beginning of the loop trail. I was delighted to find the loop trail had a bunch of little laminated pages from a children’s book spread out at different points so you could read about the sad little baby T-rex as you walked along. What an adorable idea! I loved it! And I don’t even have kids.
Havign looked this place up online before writing this it seems like it might be a skiing path in winter? No idea if they keep the book pages up for that but in the summer I found this place very green and very beautiful with some views of the traintracks, the dam, the river, and of course the forest. I also found a mushroom that looked like it was trying to morph into a flower which made me very happy to take photos of.
All and all this was a nice easy trail, not too long, and great for wee ones as well as adults.
