Joyce Kilmer - A Special Place

A walk through Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest is a story different from the rest of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It is a journey back in time through a magnificent old growth forest with towering trees as old as 400 years.

 

Some yellow poplars stand 100 feet tall and are over 20 feet in circumference. The forest floor is a garden of wildflowers, ferns, and moss-covered logs from fallen giants. In the spring, just before the trees leaf out, millions of trillium flowers carpet the forest floor.

 

Giant Poplars

Red Trillium

White Trillium

White Trillium

Yellow Trillium

Yellow Flowers

 

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