Creek Trail

Dogs Leashed

Features Birding · Fall Colors · River/Creek · Spring · Wildflowers · Wildlife

Since this trail is next to a creek it can get muddy after rain.

Chiefs Trail begins near the visitor's center at Crow's Nest preserve and winds along French Creek before connecting to Chief's Grove Trail. The trail is clearly marked with circular yellow arrows. You wander thought though forest the over wooden planks that cover marshy wetlands till you reach open meadow. Sometimes the meadows are just high green grass and other times they are filled with native wildflowers. The trail is relatively flat all the way through and is kept well-mowed through the year.

This area is a mature woodland dominated by oak, hickory, tuliptree, beech, maple, and spicebush. Nearly extinct American chestnuts sprout from decaying stumps. Deer, foxes, and all kinds of birds can be spotted from the trail.