Wild Walk (series of 4)
White Memorial Foundation, Litchfield CT
Placed by Aili & Bruce, Nov. 10, 2002
Easy!! No hills, some rocky/rooty sections. Less than 3 miles, plan on at least 3 hours because you simply must gawk at the scenery. Please stamp and rehide all boxes discreetly.

Enter from the main entrance on Route 202. Park at the Museum. A visit inside is well worth the admission price. Maps of the 35 miles of trails which spider-web the Foundations 4000 acres are sold in the gift shop.

Begin behind the Mott-Van Winkle Environmental Center, on the Trail of the Senses (green blazes & plaques on posts here & there). Find the sign that says Feel the holes, the texture and temperature of the decaying logs See that big oak at 18º? It has a hole in the back. Red-Eyed Guys are sleeping it off in there. You dont have to move the rock, and please just position a stick over the box so it isnt too quick to be seen.

Fun Fact: Amphibian means two-lives. It refers to how an amphibian begins life with gills breathing water, then morphs into an animal with lungs breathing air.

Continue  through the Trail of Senses until it meets with the Interpretive Nature Trail, marked with blue rectangles. Go left, northerly. Take a left onto the unpaved road (still blazed blue), cross the paved road, and shortly thereafter take a right onto the Little Pond Trail (black square on white square blaze). At the T, follow this loop counter-clockwise. Cross one bridge, then before the second one, duck (no pun intended) off the boardwalk to a trail on the right, follow the footpath to the big beaver bitten tree..