Boyd Woods LbNA #39135
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Apr 22, 2008 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Litchfield |
| County: | Litchfield |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | dragonfly hunter  |
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| Found by: | Team Rogue |
| Last found: | Oct 1, 2023 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Apr 22, 2008 |
7/09 AFTER BEING LOST SINCE LAST OCTOBER THE BOYD WOODS BOX HAS BEEN FOUND AND REPLACED. THANKS BACKTRACKERS.
Dragonfly Hunter and Bag Lady
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 for a short distance and you will note a break in the stone wall. This is the beginning of the Windy Woods or yellow blazed trail. Follow this trail. Eventually you will make a sharp right hand turn and follow along Wigwam Brook. You will come to the end of the Windy woods trail at the northwest corner of the Monarch Meadow, so called because it has huge amounts of milkweed which is the host plant for the Monarch butterfly caterpillar.
The trail will then intersect the Pond or blue blazed trail. In a short distance you will come to Margery’s Pond. Sit a spell on one of the benches if you are so inclined. Nearby is a beaver lodge and if you look carefully you will see a huge black cherry tree that beavers have gnawed about halfway through. Continue a short distance and you will see a stone wall perpendicular to the trail. About ten feet from the near end of the wall you will see a large diameter tree. Look in the wall near the tree for the Boyd Woods Letterbox.
The stamp depicts the LHAS logo – a black capped chickadee on a pine branch.
When you have completed your stamping you can continue around the pond, staying on the blue trail. You will soon intersect with the Hilltop or pink blazed trail or a short distance later with the Ridge or white blazed trail, either of which will return you to the Plash.
If you are in a hurry, here’s a shortcut, but you won’t get to see all the cool stuff at Boyd Woods: From the kiosk in the parking lot go down the hill parallel to the stone wall and follow the trail shown on the trail map as “The Lane”. It will take you through the Monarch Meadow and meet up with the blue trail at the northwest corner. Retrace your steps back to the parking lot.
Dragonfly Hunter and Bag Lady
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 for a short distance and you will note a break in the stone wall. This is the beginning of the Windy Woods or yellow blazed trail. Follow this trail. Eventually you will make a sharp right hand turn and follow along Wigwam Brook. You will come to the end of the Windy woods trail at the northwest corner of the Monarch Meadow, so called because it has huge amounts of milkweed which is the host plant for the Monarch butterfly caterpillar.
The trail will then intersect the Pond or blue blazed trail. In a short distance you will come to Margery’s Pond. Sit a spell on one of the benches if you are so inclined. Nearby is a beaver lodge and if you look carefully you will see a huge black cherry tree that beavers have gnawed about halfway through. Continue a short distance and you will see a stone wall perpendicular to the trail. About ten feet from the near end of the wall you will see a large diameter tree. Look in the wall near the tree for the Boyd Woods Letterbox.
The stamp depicts the LHAS logo – a black capped chickadee on a pine branch.
When you have completed your stamping you can continue around the pond, staying on the blue trail. You will soon intersect with the Hilltop or pink blazed trail or a short distance later with the Ridge or white blazed trail, either of which will return you to the Plash.
If you are in a hurry, here’s a shortcut, but you won’t get to see all the cool stuff at Boyd Woods: From the kiosk in the parking lot go down the hill parallel to the stone wall and follow the trail shown on the trail map as “The Lane”. It will take you through the Monarch Meadow and meet up with the blue trail at the northwest corner. Retrace your steps back to the parking lot.