Eshqua Bog and lunch, June 19th, We will be carpooling and leaving Morrisville at 9am and should return around 3pm.

Eshqua Bog is a botanical wonderland of cold-climate holdovers—small pockets of bog and a two-acre fen—from the post-glacial era 10,000 years ago. This preserve contains a diverse array of bog and fen plants: labrador tea, cotton grass, pitcher plants, showy lady's slippers, larches and buckbean. 

They have a 460-foot accessible boardwalk so that more people could enjoy Eshqua's natural treasures from its multiple viewing platforms and benches. 

"The showy lady's slippers are usually in bloom around June 20th—depending on weather. Yellow lady's slippers are about two weeks earlier and there are many fewer than the hundreds of showys. There are also northern bog orchids and green orchids which are blooming about the same time or a little after the showys."

Eshqua Bog Natural Area is co-owned and managed by The Nature Conservancy in Vermont and Native Plant Trust. 

Directions

Garvin Hill Road, Woodstock

From I-89 take Exit 1, for Route 4 west toward Woodstock and Rutland. Drive 10.4 miles nearly into Woodstock, where Route 4 makes a sharp 90-degree bend to the right (there is a gas station on the right hand side). Do not turn right! Instead turn left onto Hartland Hill Road. Drive 1.2 miles and bear right onto Garvin Hill Road. Drive another 1.2 miles and look for TNC parking area on the right.