Along the Bike Path

Turn left onto the paved bike path and head south, back towards Parking Lot 2.

Wild Indigo and Witch’s Brooms: Along the edge of the bike trail, during the summer, you will see a low plant about three feet high with teardrop shaped seedpods. This is yellow wild indigo; it grows best along the edges of roads and clearings. Any time of year, ook up in the branches of some of the pitch pines along the path and you will see Witch’s Brooms. These look like large nests but are biological mutations in the tree that cause the needles to grow overlapping themselves. In middle-ages Europe these types of mutations where thought to be the homes of witches and ghosts, hence its spooky name.