Introduction to Trincity Wooded Area

Trinity is a far away place comparatively, but the woods feel closed in by development. The only exception to this is the woods go all the way down the hill and up the hill across the creek. Characterized by old mountain bike jumps that look too scary to try, and a steep hill that takes serious work to hike back up, the woods here are really defined by the landscape. On top of the hill, there is almost no undergrowth and fallen branches. However, as you walk down the hill towards the creek, the forest floor is more crowded with more undergrowth and more fallen branches. This area is found by taking a trail from the top of Trinity Campus near Farrell Hall and venturing around the mountain bike trails. You know you are there when you can see a creek and a marshland in the distance in a field before an apartment complex, but you are still on a wooded hill on the trinity side of the creek. The experience of being here is calming. Any natural area with a visual on a waterway no matter how small is going to be peaceful for the majority of the human race. Slowly and slowly the leaves are changing color and falling off. The forest floor is covered in dead leaves today. Winter is coming fast and will transform these woods into a frigid wasteland with a frozen creek.