Two Walks in One Weekend: Trillium Trail, Dresden

The second walk we took last weekend was the Trillium Trail in Dresden ON. This is another walk on the WalkCK schedule, and one I haven't been on yet. I have a huge passion for history, and this is a historic walk. There is a little brochure you can print off that details all of the historical points of interest. That brochure can be found here.

For this trek the boys and I met up with my dad while hubby was playing in a church (also in Dresden). We met at the start of the trail and with the brochure in hand, we started. By started, I mean  the boys ran to the swings, my dad walked off to look at the river, and I was trying to pull my invisible leashes on all of them to start the trail. But that is the nice parts about trail walking, there really isn't a rush. However, that cold, damp air sure showed me that we wouldn't be able to last too long.

 We all caught up to my dad to look at the river. Both the boys found big sticks to joust and drag around with and we were ready to go on the actual trail! Then, the two year old b-lined it to the park that was nearby. The four year old tried to chase him to turn him back around, then realized what he was about to do, so he quickly changed his priorities and beat his brother to the park. The boys had a few (wet) slides, and then we were actually on our way!

We came across a couple of plaques at the beginning. I love reading plaques!  They also helped to keep the boys focused by 'racing' them to the next plaque. Win-win!

Further on, we noticed a little wall of bricks. As I was wondering what they used to belong to, my dad said he had a feeling I should look up number 9 on the brochure. As I was amazed and confused about where he got 9 from, I then saw the little post with the number 9 on it. Well played Dad. The brochure said "Martha & Sarah Burket’s Grocery Store operated here c. 1860." So nice to get answers to those questions of "I wonder what that was for?".

As we strolled along we got to see a couple of signs of nature as this long winter ends. We got to see a woodpecker and a rabbit rather up close. Nothing overly exciting or exotic, but still always neat to see birds and animals on the trails.
 
We had to cut the walk short due to cold weather (and the fact my husband was done and waiting for us at the coffee shop), but I am so excited to take this trail with WalkCK on  21 June, 2014 and see it all!

I knew I would love this trail on location alone, with tall mature trees, and a river along the way, you just have to, but with the added plaques and history you also get a deeper connection and appreciation to the area, and the people who once lived here.