Town: Coventry, CT

County: Tolland, CT

                         Coventry Grammar Nature Trail

 

Planted on 11/25/2001 by the Bernier Family

 

Rated:  Easy - 15 min.

 

This is our first letterbox planted!

 

Take route 44 to route 31 south.  Take first right onto Wrights Mill Road.  Park in the parking area to the left of the school.

 

Walk behind the school and head west down hill to the soccer field.  People usually sled down the hill in the winter time.  Find the sign marked the "Nature Trail".  I believe a local boy scout built the sign and repaired the broken bridges damaged from fallen trees.  Count 21 paces into the left path.  Take left onto the red trail.  At the huge boulder, take left.  Pass a tree that split and formed a triangle as it rests between two trees.  As you cross a bridge, there will be an uprooted tree on your left.  Cross up and over next bridge and take a right at the tree with a twisted trunk.  Follow trail keeping Olson Brook on right and the many fallen trees on left.  Go down log steps.  Walk over bridge and take a right.  A tree has fallen across the trail with a wire fence still attached to it.  Part of the trunk was cut and moved off the trail so you won't have to climb over it.  Be careful of the wire fence lying on the ground as you look in the base of the tree.  The base is hollow.  No wonder the tree fell.  Stamp and rehide.  Continue on the path and out back to your car.