Travel Tips

Travel Tip: Bog Tours

You’ve heard about fall foliage tours, but what about touring a bog in the fall. What’s cool about bogs is that the land is acidic and nutrient poor, so the foliage tends to be different than nearby forests.

On the East Coast, kettle hole bogs were formed thousands of years ago by peat moss creeping into depressions caused by melted glaciers.

In New Hampshire, some bogs actually have boardwalks so you can walk through the swampy land to see the unusual foliage.

In Maine, the Saco Heath bog is part of The Nature Conservancy, which covers more than 1,000 acres with a nature trail and floating boardwalk. Here, you can catch sight of red maples and black gum trees, along with white pines and white cedars.

Also in Maine, in West Quoddy Head State Park, a 1.5-mile bog trail takes you along a raised boardwalk to see flora like sheep laurel and cotton grass.

Last, but certainly not least, have you ever heard of…bog swimming? Yes, it’s an actual sport in the country of Wales.

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