Boswell Botany Trail

The Southern Vermont Arts Center's Boswell Botany Trail, a rambling, three-quarter mile nature trail dotted with rustic seats and benches, began its long career in 1917 as the nature walk of the original Webster estate. It was officially designated as the Boswell Botany Trail, in honor of its creator, Mrs. Harold "Petie" Boswell, in 1964.

The trail was re-created and greatly expanded in 2001 thanks to funds from the Nichols Foundation. Replete with its wonderfully bucolic wildflower walk, the Boswell Botany Trail boasts stately white birches, native orchids, grasses and moss, and most of the 67 varieties of fern found in Vermont, all in a unique glacial microclimate.

The trail is easily explored at a leisurely pace by most walkers in a half-hour or less.