Michigan's Best Nature Centers and Wilderness Preserves by Matt Forster

Author:Matt Forster
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781591936817
Publisher: Adventure Publications
Published: 2017-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

See for yourself! This park has 100-foot-tall beech trees; many are more than 450 years old!

The rundown:

Warren Woods State Park is home to the state’s last virgin stand of beech-maple forest. A designated nature area and national natural landmark, the park features a single trail that begins at the parking area and ends at the trailhead on Warren Woods Road to the north.

The path cuts through a forest of nearly 200 acres (the park itself is 311 acres) and, along the way, it crosses a bridge over the Galien River. Some of the towering beeches here are more than 450 years old, which means they would have been saplings when William Shakespeare was a baby. The smooth-barked silver beeches rise 100 feet from the forest floor to create a canopy overhead. The shorter sugar maple trees that populate the forest understory gather up what little light trickles through the leaves above them.

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