WOODSTOCK — Hike the awakening fields, woods and wetlands of the 154-acres to see what is springing up on the Wyndham Land Trust Spalding/Rapoport Preserve from 10 to 11:30 a.m. April 23.

As part of The Last Green Valley’s new Spring Outdoors program, Wyndham Land Trust offers you this chance to connect with this scenic area of Woodstock, a combination of two contiguous preserves—the Linda J. Rapoport Memorial Preserve and the Paul and Avis Spalding Preserve. 

An abandoned town road—Calkins Road—runs from Pulpit Rock Road alongside the east edge of the pond and takes visitors past the Spalding Preserve. The preserve is a former corn field and is being converted to grass pasture.

With frontage on Pulpit Rock Road, the Rapoport Preserve is divided by the Taylor Brook beaver pond. The northern section of the preserve includes three active hayfields off Joy Road which will remain as farm land. 

Join Wyndham Land Trust for this moderate walk by meeting at 10 a.m. at the end of Calkins Road, off Joy Road, and follow it to the end. Street parking is available near #129. Leashed dogs are welcome on this walk.

The mission of the Wyndham Land Trust is to conserve the natural resources of Northeast Connecticut - the water courses, swamps, woodlands, and open spaces, the plant and animal life therein, and the scenic natural and historic sites - all of which are very much a part of the unique character and beauty of all communities in northeast Connecticut.