Beech Ridge Preserve

There is a ½-mile hiking trail accessible at Belcher Road, just east of the intersection with Dry Road. The trail winds through the forest and over-top a stream bridge. The preserve sits at the headwaters of Belcher Creek, and hosts a mature deciduous hardwood forest with a large assemblage of mature and sapling American beech on sunny, south-facing slopes. Several springs emerge from the preserve’s uplands, feeding wetlands and headwater streams. The wetlands are dominated by pin oak, green ash, red maple, and swamp white oak.