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:

🍄 Become a Fungi Detective on the Decomposition Trail!

Explore how fungi drive decomposition in the forest, transforming dead wood into habitat and nutrient-rich soil. Along the way, learn the many forms fungi take. Discover how their hidden work shapes the forest around you.

Turn your daily hikes into mushroom scavenger hunts! Stroll along the sun-dappled trail. Will you find all six fungus types and growth habits? Keep your eyes peeled for:

Bracket Fungi: Wood-loving shelves that grow horizontally out of tree trunks like sturdy stepping stones.
Wood-Growing Mushrooms: Classic umbrella-shaped mushrooms with blade-like gills underneath, choosing logs over soil.
Jelly Fungi: Rubbery, squishy blobs that look like colorful gelatin stuck to damp branches.
Cup Fungi: Tiny, hollow saucers or bowls that face upward to catch raindrops and shoot out spores.
Tooth & Spine Fungi: Mystical-looking mushrooms with icicle-like spikes hanging downward instead of flat gills.
Inkcaps & Brittlestems: Delicate, fragile mushrooms that either snap easily or melt away into gooey black ink.