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Trees, hills, wetlands, and private residences fill the landscape on this section of the Trail. Always stay on the Trail and respect the privacy of trail neighbors. Snowmobiles can travel to Highgate using VAST 207 near mile marker 5. This is a beautiful segment for viewing fall foliage.
A Working Wildlife Habitat - Wetlands are great places for converting sunshine into food. They a support a wide variety of plants that wildlife eats. Acre for acre, wetlands produce more wildlife - in numbers and variety - and more plant growth than any other habitat. Wildlife, like the Canada goose, wood duck, great blue heron, muskrat, beaver, and ~ bullfrog, depend on the dense vegetation in wetlands to build homes / and hide from predators. Other wildlife, like black bear, moose, deer, and marsh hawks, use wetlands for a part of their life ~ cycle or during certain times of the year.
Share the Trail with Wildlife -- Listen for the musical sounds of songbirds in the forest and frogs in the wetlands along this section of the Trail. Watch for chipmunks darting across the Trail and turtles sunning themselves on rocks. Small snakes enjoy sunning themselves on the trail in open areas. They are not poisonous. We hope you'll quietly enjoy their company and share the Trail with all wildlife.
There are no services along this section of the Trail.
Sign images are from the Manual of Traffic Signs by Richard C. Moeur.
Copied by Kenyon F.
Karl <Webmaster@new-england-rail-trails.org>
from the 1999 edition using scanner & OCR software.
Unintentional errors are likely!
