This visit was a return to the Bog after many years and visits as a kid. Nostalgia made it seem bigger in my imagination than it was last time I visited, but the area is still nice to walk through and such an interesting environmental area! The Boardwalk is still the highlight for me: very solid, well-maintained, and not super-wide: Wheelchairs will be able to access this, but people will have to use the little "pull off" sections of the boardwalk where it's wider to pass each other. There is lots of room on the platform at the end by the open water. It still fun to jump up and down and watch the trees move; the updated boardwalk doesn't allow that as much as when I was a kid. Now that I'm an adult, I can reach the trees off the side of the path and wiggle them myself. :) The rest of the trails are mildly interesting, and beautiful in the fall - make sure you take a map, as they have the yellow blazes, but there are so many side trails that it sometimes becomes difficult to know exactly where you are and what trail hooks up with what other trail. ...
Read moreAmazing and unique environment right in the middle of London. A glacier left a deep bowl shaped depression in the land at the end of the ice age and over thousands of years dead trees have created a Peat Bog. The resulting environment is very different from the rest of this area so you see very different species of trees and plants growing around the bog. A wooden boardwalk has been constructed to prevent damage to the bog from human boots which provides a very pleasant walk through the bog and down to a small pond. The pond is inhabited by frogs, toads and turtles including one very large turtle. Many different types of Dragonflies and Damselflies hover and dart low over the water while tadpoles swim in the margins. A very pleasant place and...
Read moreAmazing boardwalk. Amazing view
This is definitely a place I recommend checking out atleast once.
Want to go for a romantic walk keeping your partner close this is where I would recommend because it's just to relaxing claiming and really let's you appreciate the beauty of nature.
All that being said i am removing one star because of the from entrance we used.
There was plenty of shattered glass than signs warning that there are been multiple vehicle break-ins which did cause a small amount of stress in the back of my mind which slightly took away from...
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