Looking along the Forest path at Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, near Mount Vernon, Virginia, in the United States. Some of the estate remains heavily wooded, as it was in Washington's time. The estate has built wooded staircases and paths through these woods to give visitors a quick way of traveling from the Pioneer Farm uphill back to the Great Meadow and Bowling Green. Signage along the way educates visitors about the woods, what they were used for, the geology of Mount Vernon, and trees and animals one can see there.