Barnum Brook Trail
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Barnum Brook Slide Show

This 0.8 mile loop – designed to be accessible to those in wheelchairs and people who have difficulty walking – begins at the gazebo near the parking lot of the Visitor Center. The trail meanders through second-growth forest to two overlooks with good views of the marsh and St. Regis Mountain. The path then follows Barnum Brook. After crossing a fish barrier dam, you return to the gazebo through a stand of white pines.

Birds commonly heard and seen near the gazebo or in the mixed boreal forest include:

• Blue-headed Vireo
• Red-eyed Vireo
• Hermit Thrush
• Winter Wren
• White-throated Sparrow
• American Robin
• Cedar Waxwing
• Northern Parula
• Hairy Woodpecker
• Black-throated Green Warbler
• Magnolia Warbler
• Golden-crowned Kinglet
• American Goldfinch
• Black-capped Chickadee
• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• Common Yellowthroat
• Ovenbird
• Nashville Warbler
  

Birds commonly heard and seen at the overlooks on Heron Marsh include:

• American Bittern
• Broad-winged Hawk
• Swamp Sparrow
• Alder Flycatcher
• Great Blue Heron
• Red-winged Blackbird
• Wood Duck
  

Wildflowers commonly seen along this trail include:

• Helloborine Orchid (Epipactis helleborine)
• Spreading Dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium)
• Canada Mayflower (Maianthemum canadense) - often zigzag stem; Lily family; flowers in May-June
• Wild Sarsparilla (Aralia nudicaulis) - flowers in spring
• Goldthread (coptis trifolia) - Blooms in early summer; rhizome long, slender creeping; bright golden yellow
• Creeping Snowberry (Gaultheria hispidula) - part of the heath family; blooms in spring; prostrate plant; leaves egg shaped; typically grows in moss mats or on rotting stumps; edible white berries have a winter-green flavor
• Dewdrops (Dalibarda repens) - False Violet; flowering; creeping plant; heart-shaped leaves with margin scalloped
• Clintonia (Clintonia borealis) - blooms in spring
• Wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens) - checkerberry
• Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis)
• Spotted Touch-Me-Not (Impatiens capensis) - Jewelweed; Orange Jewelweed
• Hop clover
• St. John's Wort
• Cow-wheat (Melampyrum lineare)