Boyd Gorilla LbNA #41599
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jul 8, 2008 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Litchfield |
| County: | Litchfield |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | dragonfly hunter  |
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| Found by: | pardondude |
| Last found: | Apr 8, 2024 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFaFFFaFF |
| Last edited: | Jul 8, 2008 |
Boyd Woods is a wildlife sanctuary owned by Litchfield Hills Audubon Society, a chapter of the National Audubon Society. See our website www.lhasct.org for more info about our chapter or join us for a field trip or monthly meeting. What, where and when will be found on our latest newsletter “Chickadee Chatter” on the website.
Boyd Woods is located on Route 254 which runs from Route 6 in Thomaston to Route 118 in Litchfield. The sanctuary is on the left side of Route 254 coming from Thomaston. The sign is not easily seen so watch carefully.
Park in the parking lot adjacent to the hayfield. NO DOGS PLEASE. Check out the kiosk for information about Boyd Woods and LHAS. You will find trail maps, Audubon membership applications and a notebook for wildlife observations. In the summertime you will note the plantings in bloom around the kiosk. They are butterfly attracting plant species.
Your quest starts at the kiosk. Head roughly westerly down the hill parallel to the stone wall. When you leave the hayfield and enter the forest look to your right and you will see a small body of water. Margery Boyd, who owned the 100 plus acres before it was donated to LHAS, coined the term “PLASH” because it was smaller than a pond and bigger than a splash. Continue west down the “lane” until you leave the forest and enter the Monarch Meadow, so called because it has huge amounts of milkweed which is the host plant for the Monarch butterfly caterpillar. Continue along the path across the meadow to the northwest corner. At that point the end of the Windy Woods (yellow blazed) Trail and the beginning of the Pond (blue blazed) Trails meet.
Take the Pond Trail for a short distance and you will come upon Margery’s Pond. Continue around the west side of the pond on the trail. You will pass a beaver lodge, a huge black cherry tree gnawed about halfway through by beavers (the most photographed tree on the property) and a stone wall perpendicular to the trail. A little way past the stone wall you will come to the intersection of the Brook (orange blazed) Trail. Turn left on the Brook Trail. You will be heading west, down a hill toward Wigwam Brook. The trail turns north just before the brook. Continue north until you reach the arched bridge. At that point turn around and go south about 55 paces until you see a rock that looks like a pile of dirty snow at the right side of the trail. Stand on or near the rock and look for the gorilla. It’s between the trail and the brook. Standing at the rock look left of the trail. You will find the Boyd Gorilla Letterbox under a rock at the base of a yellow birch tree.
When you have completed your stamping you can go back to the pond the way you came or you can take a left on the Beaver (red blazed) Trail which will get you back to the pond.
Boyd Woods is located on Route 254 which runs from Route 6 in Thomaston to Route 118 in Litchfield. The sanctuary is on the left side of Route 254 coming from Thomaston. The sign is not easily seen so watch carefully.
Park in the parking lot adjacent to the hayfield. NO DOGS PLEASE. Check out the kiosk for information about Boyd Woods and LHAS. You will find trail maps, Audubon membership applications and a notebook for wildlife observations. In the summertime you will note the plantings in bloom around the kiosk. They are butterfly attracting plant species.
Your quest starts at the kiosk. Head roughly westerly down the hill parallel to the stone wall. When you leave the hayfield and enter the forest look to your right and you will see a small body of water. Margery Boyd, who owned the 100 plus acres before it was donated to LHAS, coined the term “PLASH” because it was smaller than a pond and bigger than a splash. Continue west down the “lane” until you leave the forest and enter the Monarch Meadow, so called because it has huge amounts of milkweed which is the host plant for the Monarch butterfly caterpillar. Continue along the path across the meadow to the northwest corner. At that point the end of the Windy Woods (yellow blazed) Trail and the beginning of the Pond (blue blazed) Trails meet.
Take the Pond Trail for a short distance and you will come upon Margery’s Pond. Continue around the west side of the pond on the trail. You will pass a beaver lodge, a huge black cherry tree gnawed about halfway through by beavers (the most photographed tree on the property) and a stone wall perpendicular to the trail. A little way past the stone wall you will come to the intersection of the Brook (orange blazed) Trail. Turn left on the Brook Trail. You will be heading west, down a hill toward Wigwam Brook. The trail turns north just before the brook. Continue north until you reach the arched bridge. At that point turn around and go south about 55 paces until you see a rock that looks like a pile of dirty snow at the right side of the trail. Stand on or near the rock and look for the gorilla. It’s between the trail and the brook. Standing at the rock look left of the trail. You will find the Boyd Gorilla Letterbox under a rock at the base of a yellow birch tree.
When you have completed your stamping you can go back to the pond the way you came or you can take a left on the Beaver (red blazed) Trail which will get you back to the pond.