Drummond Schools In Session Wednesday Sept. 1

Please Drive Safely !!!!!

 The photo to the left is Drummond Lake in 2009 in the fall.  Please be sure to take a trip down to the lake this fall to see if the lake has come up since all the rain this spring and summer and to check out the new fall colors.  Please submit your fall foliage photos to the Drummond website and we will put some of them on the Home page and in the Photo Gallery.

Thanks for your help in making this a fun place to look for Drummond photos.

Take
 a Hike
  On The 
The North
    Country   
    Trail  
Or On
The
Drummond
Woods
Trail

 From Drummond, drive northeast 1 mile on Hwy. 63 to Old 63.  Turn left (west) and a parking area for the Drummond Woods Trail/North Country Trail is on the right side of Old 63.  Take a short walk further down Old 63 and you will see the trail sign on the right.

In June 1979 some folks from Drummond met in Drummond Woods to say goodbye to, and to cut a large White Pine that had been struck by lightning in 1967, which broke the top out of it and again in 1977, which tore a section out of the trunk that was fourteen inches wide, six inches thick and fifteen feet long.  The tree died in 1978.  A fourteen foot log was cut and scaled seven hundred board feet.  The annular rings were counted to determine the age of the tree.  Two hundred and sixty five rings were counted and an educated guess was made as to how old the tree was, at the height of seven feet, which was the point where the count was made.  A pine four inches in diameter, seven feet above the ground, would be about fifteen years, so this added to the two hundred and sixty-five years would make the tree about two hundred and eighty years old.

The Drummond Woods Trail is 3/4 of a mile with some interpretive signage.  The trail is an easy walk and has both wonderful early blooming flowers in the spring due to close wetlands and in the fall the old growth northern hardwoods are gorgeous.  Be sure to wear appropriate walking shoes, use a walking stick if desired, use bug spray in spring and summer months (mosquitoes also love the area) and be prepared for wet weather.  In the winter, with deep snow, both the Drummond Trail and North Country Trail are used for snowshoeing.  The Drummond Woods is owned by the US Forest Service and was designated a State Natural Area in 2007.

Check on the US Forest Service web page "Celebrating Wildflowers - Drummond Woods" by clicking here.

The North Country Trail branches off the Drummond Woods Trail.  The North Country Trail - 4600 miles stretched across seven states all made possible by the hard work of more than 800 volunteers each year.  This is the Great Lakes, the Northwoods, the path of westward expansion - a footpath linking communities from New York to North Dakota. 

Check out the very informative, and large, North Country web page by clicking here