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Scenic & Romantic
Wander the Drowned Forest at Woodhaven Swamp
Belcarra's moody wetland loop past silvery ghost trees and a drowned forest that looks like it is posing for a gothic album cover.
Scenic & Romantic
Belcarra's moody wetland loop past silvery ghost trees and a drowned forest that looks like it is posing for a gothic album cover.
The name does a lot of the work here. Woodhaven Swamp sounds like the opening of a ghost story, and the trail delivers: this short, easy-to-moderate loop in Belcarra Regional Park circles a wetland crowded with the silvery skeletons of a drowned forest, bare snags punching up through still water that goes mirror-perfect on a calm morning and turns properly haunting in the mist. Link it with the Sasamat-Woodhaven connector for a stretch of forested Sasamat Lake shoreline, and you are looking at a roughly two-and-a-half-hour ramble through scenery that keeps changing on you. It is free, blessedly less trampled than the famous Belcarra spots, and open year-round. Bring a dog if you have one, kept on-leash. Moody natural lighting, minimal crowds, and a backdrop that makes every photo you take look extremely intentional.
