Trailside explorers

This Forest Provides Critical Urban Greenspace

A needed and treasured natural space for community engagement, where all can explore and recreate. A classroom, a laboratory, and constant provider of solitude, health and wellbeing.

Exhibits along a one mile loop deepen understanding of this special place. Our current self-guided Nature Trail Featured Experiences are:

Shin-rin Yoku & Green Careers in Forestry

The Forest is transformed as we invite you to experience shinrin yoku, the Japanese term that means "to bathe in the atmosphere of the forest." Forest bathing is a way of slowing down, immersing ourselves in the air of the forest and experience nature with all of our senses.

Walk slowly through the Forest and read each interpretive panel to deepen your nature experience. Scan the QR codes to add an audio meditation to ground your breath and body. Smell, look, listen, and touch the Forest around you. What do you notice?

Experience the Forest Bathing Trail this fall and winter along our accessible loop trail.

Try It! Our new forest explorer exhibit features eight Green Jobs in Forestry for you to learn about and try on.

Do you like to educate others and keep them safe? A Forest Ranger might be the perfect career for you. Talk to a fellow visitor about how special the forest is, and why.

Do you wonder what stories trees have to tell? Try being a Dendrologist! Find a stump or log in the Forest and try to count its rings. How old is it?