A colourful trail guide is available at the trailhead sign to direct you through this wheelchair accessible loop of alternating trail and boardwalk. You will pass through four communities while on this trail. Towering Sugar Maples dominate the old growth forest as you enter the trail. Watch for Pileated Woodpeckers drilling large oval holes in the side of dead trees, looking for a meal of invertebrates. Wood Frogs and Spotted Salamanders take advantage of the water accumulation in the Black Ash swamp during spring mating season. They must breed in water and their aquatic larvae mature in the ephemeral pools...