The Butterfly Garden LbNA #56182 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Bluebird  |
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| Plant date: | Oct 22, 2010 |
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| City: | Madison |
| County: | New Haven |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 3 |
| Found by: | cooledcoyote (2) |
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| Last found: | Jul 22, 2014 |
| Status: | FFFFF |
| Last edited: | Oct 22, 2010 |
The Butterfly Garden
This 1.5 mile hike Rockland Preserve involves little climbing, is family-friendly and will take about one hour to complete. There is one logbook, in the final box. Thanks to Hi-Cur for helping with the planting!
Park at the Renee’s Way parking area of Rockland Preserve. Do check out the map before you set out. You will be following the red/Dave Houston trail counterclockwise for the entire hike.
Follow the red blazes from the parking area. White blazes will also be seen at this point. Continue to the clearing with small white pines and an outhouse. Stay on the Houston Nature Trail whenever you have a decision to make! Soon you will come to a large erratic on the left. Nearby are some smaller erratics; look behind the largest of the smaller ones for Butterfly under a hiding stone.
Curve around a bit and cross a small bridge. Watch blazes, keeping with red (and yellow at this point). You always want the red/Dave Houston/Nature Trail! At some points white, blue, and yellow are co-joined with the red. Intersections are well marked with arrows, etc. When yellow breaks off to the right, continue left and soon see a boulder wall on your left. Toward the left side, just to the right of a very large rock, find Flower in the crevice under leaves and a stick.
Continue on red, coming to the historic charcoal/collier site. Keep going and soon you will be back at the field with the small white pines. See the boulder at the back of the field? Check behind it for the Butterfly Garden. I hope that you enjoyed this lovely woodsy walk!
This 1.5 mile hike Rockland Preserve involves little climbing, is family-friendly and will take about one hour to complete. There is one logbook, in the final box. Thanks to Hi-Cur for helping with the planting!
Park at the Renee’s Way parking area of Rockland Preserve. Do check out the map before you set out. You will be following the red/Dave Houston trail counterclockwise for the entire hike.
Follow the red blazes from the parking area. White blazes will also be seen at this point. Continue to the clearing with small white pines and an outhouse. Stay on the Houston Nature Trail whenever you have a decision to make! Soon you will come to a large erratic on the left. Nearby are some smaller erratics; look behind the largest of the smaller ones for Butterfly under a hiding stone.
Curve around a bit and cross a small bridge. Watch blazes, keeping with red (and yellow at this point). You always want the red/Dave Houston/Nature Trail! At some points white, blue, and yellow are co-joined with the red. Intersections are well marked with arrows, etc. When yellow breaks off to the right, continue left and soon see a boulder wall on your left. Toward the left side, just to the right of a very large rock, find Flower in the crevice under leaves and a stick.
Continue on red, coming to the historic charcoal/collier site. Keep going and soon you will be back at the field with the small white pines. See the boulder at the back of the field? Check behind it for the Butterfly Garden. I hope that you enjoyed this lovely woodsy walk!