Quiet hemlock glens, spring wildflowers and watery vistas await the hiker along this trail. Begin your walk at the boat landing, where the trail heads through a hemlock grove to meander along the shoreline of Meetinghouse Pond. Watch for tracks and droppings of porcupine and snowshoe hare beneath the trees. Along the shore are water-loving shrubs such as winterberry holly and maleberry, and summer wildflowers such as marsh st. Heading away from the pond, along the side of a ridge, you pass through another hemlock glen, this one dark and bouldery.
Red squirrels chatter and chickadees forage in the treetops.
Rock polypody, an evergreen fern, sprouts on the larger boulders. Where the trail takes a sharp left, stop to enjoy the view before passing through a gap in the stone wall. This wall was likely built around 1800, as a boundary line between the land of Shubael Stove and Henry Hunt, and was probably maintained and added to by subsequent property owners. Another wall stands to the north of this one, separating Stove's land from the Fitch Pasture. Walk down toward the pond again, through sheep laurel and patches of low blueberry, until you reach an old open-grown American beech.