Gilbertのおすすめウォーキング＆ハイキングルート

Peggy's Trail is a loop through Reactor Woods, a small forest behind Iowa State University's Applied Sciences Complex, the former home of the Ames Laboratory Nuclear Research Reactor. Iowa State University played a significant role in uranium refinement for the Manhattan Project and in the development of nuclear energy after WWII. This property is where that research happened.

A bench at the edge of a wooded slope overlooks Onion Creek and the forest below. The old chainlink-and-barbed-wire fence from the time the complex housed a nuclear reactor runs through the trees near this place. There is also a washed-out culvert nearby.

There is a wooden bench swing here from which you can see most of Ada Hayden Heritage Park, including the lake and lower trails and the prairie reclamation project.

Upper pond is a smaller, shallower body of water located along the gravel portion of the trail system, which sees fewer users than the paved paths. You might glimpse painted turtles and snapping turtles crossing the trail or sunning themselves on logs.

You can find a picnic shelter with restrooms and a drinking fountain here. There are also fishing docks and benches nearby.

This bridge bisects the lake, so it is a good place to search both the north and the south bodies simultaneously for loons, trumpeter swans, and other waterfowl.

Hundreds of species of geese, ducks, herons, coots, and other birds frequent this lake. You can view these birds and other wildlife from most of the lakeshore, but here in particular you might also see beaver and muskrat activity.