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15 stops in route order. Everything is readable and playable here, whether or not you're on the trail.

• 1

  The stream running through Olivia's Forest is the…

  Water

  The stream running through Olivia's Forest is the organizing feature of this tiny preserve. Trails climb away from it and return again, so you keep experiencing the same watercourse from different heights.

  Listen Replay

  Best-effort placement along estimated route reconstructed from public trail maps/descriptions

• 2Follow that water far enough and it eventually joins…
  Water
• 3In a preserve this small, a simple stream crossing…
  Water
• 4The restored white trail uses a more durable bridge at…
  Nature
• 5The green blazes are your connection back toward Ridge…
  Nature
• 6Now the terrain rises into a rounded hill covered with…
  Water
• 7In places, the orange and white routes share the same…
  Nature
• 8An unblazed spur heads toward the Shamrock Lane side of…
  History
• 9There are only about seven-tenths of a mile of blazed…
  Nature
• 10Instead of giving you one big landscape, it gives you a…
  Water
• 11The white trail nearly disappeared from regular use…
  Nature
• 12Part of that restoration involved improving the creek…
  Nature
• 13The Ridge Road entrance sits north of Whipple Road,…
  Nature
• 14The small parking area fits the scale of the property
  Nature
• 15Pay attention to how quickly the plants change as you…
  Nature