Brad recommended we check this place out. Lina left home early and I headed over on my own. A nice place, but it would be much better if I was a birder, I expect.
Boardwalk Trail
From the website
(.75 miles) This trail takes you across a semi-permanent wetland that has year-round wildlife viewing opportunities. Cattails and bulrushes hide night-herons, marsh wrens, and busy muskrats, and turtles bask on exposed snags in open water. Cormorants and grebes are common in this area.
My Stats:
Distance: 2.39 miles
Time: 50:29 minutes
Avg Speed: 2.8 mph
Elevation: 4,502 ft
Elevation Gain: 95 ft
The frogs were incredible and the birds practically posed for pictures. Too bad Lina never brought the camera and I had to use my cell phone.
Otherwise a nice stroll
Marsh Overlook Trail
from the website:
(1.5 miles) Walk through willows and cattails and around a seasonally-flooded wetland on this trail. Look for secretive marsh birds like bitterns and Virginia rails in the marsh. The trail includes a quarter-mile (round-trip) spur trail to a reflection bench on top of a bluff that overlooks the south end of the refuge and is well worth the ten minute detour.
This was a nice stroll along a road. Nothing special except the snake.
