EASTHAM – Spring is as good a time as any to stroll along the Buttonbush Trail in Eastham because this braille trail invites exploration by touch rather than by sight.
That makes it less significant that the leaves have not yet filled in and the flowers are not quite in full bloom.
Proceeding along the trail’s rope guide by touch and feeling barks of trees is the way to experience this trail, located just steps from the Cape Cod National Seashore headquarters.
The Buttonbush Trail in Eastham is a short trail (less than half a mile) that winds past a freshwater pond.
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Trail walkers are invited to feel the reddish brown bark of a red cedar tree. Or you can look up at the canopy.
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A boardwalk takes walkers over a freshwater wetland, but heavy rains this season have left it partly flooded.
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Signs suggest that trail walkers feel the rough bark of the pitch pine.
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A pitch pine’s knarled branches strike a sculptural pose against the blue sky.
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The solid trunk of an oak tree.
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Looking up at tree branches that reach towards the sky.
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Sawed off trunks in the forest form a “V” shape.
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Close look at a black oak tree trunk.
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