Photo credit: Linda S. Hughes, Virginia Master Naturalist, Historic Rivers Chapter

This 3.5-mile soft surface nature trail for hikers & joggers loops through a landscape of beaver ponds, wetlands & forests. The trail includes sections of wooden boardwalk as well as interpretative signs about the environment, historic events of the early colonists and American Indians and area wildlife. The trail loops through a mix of deciduous & coniferous forest, beaver ponds, freshwater marsh & forested wetland. The trail is on wetlands adjacent to Mainland Farm, the oldest continuously cultivated farm in America. 

 The naturalist might find it difficult to believe that this extensive site, with its remarkable diversity of habitat, was created for humans and not wildlife. One of the three interconnecting trail loops encircle a 34-acre beaver pond and incorporates a 1,000-foot boardwalk with an observation deck overlooking the water. Red-headed woodpeckers and ospreys share nesting rights to the snags flooded by this pond, and waterfowl use it as a resting area during migrations.

More than 200 species of birds have been documented on this site, which is part of the Virginia Birding Trail. The trail it is part of the Lower Peninsula Loop of the Coastal Virginia Birding Trail. The park opens daily from 8 am to sunset.

http://www.jccegov.com/recreation/parks/green-springs-trail.html