Brook Trail and Scott

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Access the Brook Trail from the Rabbit Run or, alternately, find a connecting footpath across the brook from the sauna by the chalet. The Brook Trail is an old established walking route that's been well worn over the years by the passage of many human and animal feet.

Forest sites and associated plants change with land contours as described along the Rabbit Run. The greatest diversity of plants can be found in the rich, moist soil near the footbridge at the beginnings of the trail. There's Bedstraw and Violets, Dewberries and One- Sided Pyrola. Dozens of other species, not common elsewhere, also crowd this particularly fertile ground. The trail then proceeds more routinely through the areas of spruce / moss, spruce / lichen, and spruce / bog as it does along the Rabbit Run.

Scott's Run

From Games Trail via Brook Trail, turn left onto a trail through feathermosses and massive spruce. Round a bend and suddenly... enter "The Sanctuary". Scott's Run is a new trail cut and first used in 1996 for the Labrador Winter Games and a path has not yet been clearly established through frequent pedestrian use. Walk through knee-high ferns beneath an overhanging canopy of branches from some of the largest and oldest birches in our area. Catch a glimpse of Gosling Lake through the lush foliage of mature hardwoods. Literally underfoot is a carpet of club mosses, Starflowers, Violets, Canada Mayflowers, Goldthread, Dewberries, Corn Lilies, Twinflowers, Bedstraw, Chuckley Pears, Skunk Currants, Squashberries, Red-osier Dogwood, Speckled Alder, and more to be discovered. Balsam Fir and Mountain Ash seedlings and Red Baneberry spill out of the woods and are establishing themselves in the trail clearing.

Scott's Run crosses McLean Lake Trail and then Games Trail before joining Rabbit Run. Note the clearly defined boundary between mixed birch / spruce forest and spruce / moss just before the Rabbit Run junction. The Brook Trail - Scott's Run - chalet walking route takes about forty minutes.