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The Dining Hall is a spacious social center featuring vaulted ceilings and picture windows overlooking the forest, lake, and trails. In the winter, visitors can warm their hands and feet in front of the hall’s stone fireplace. Meals are served buffet style and include a vegetarian option. A fresh salad bar is offered at lunch and dinner.
Breakfast | 8:00 a.m. |
Lunch | 12:30 p.m. |
Dinner | 5:30 p.m. |
Clearpool Lake is a 9.3-acre natural water body, fully surrounded by forest and wildlife. A 30-foot waterfront offers swimming and boating activities, including Clearpool’s famous raft-building events! The scenic shore is a wonderful place to sit quietly and reflect on the beauty of the Model Forest and wilderness setting. Lifeguards are required for all waterfront activities. Please call about schedule and fees.
The Clearpool trail system consists of more than five miles of mapped trails, open to the public Saturdays and Sundays from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Some trails meander along the lake, others climb to the top of the hills with views of the surrounding watersheds. During a walk, one might hear red-winged blackbirds, pileated woodpeckers or chickadees. Trees, shrubs, mosses, rock formations, deer, and more await the quiet forest explorer.
For more information, please call 845.225.8226.
With the completion of an elaborate new habitat built by Green Chimneys’ woodshop students, the Farm Science classroom was able to welcome Brownie into her new home. Brownie previously lived alone in her cage in the farm and wildlife office, but guinea pigs do best in larger environments. The new habitat allows her to live in a herd as she would in the wild, with many places to hide and ways to practice her skills. Brownie has always been a social creature, and she has taken over the guinea pig herd but is a very peaceful leader.