After 45 minutes, we arrive in the depths of a thick maple forest to find a collection of ramshackle wooden huts with smoking chimneys.

Before their classic sugar-shack meal, guests can go on a steam train or horse-drawn sleigh through the maple forest and visit the small on-site farm.

The park has a mixed pine, oak, maple forest.

Riparian zones support red alder and bigleaf maple forests.

The campus has hundreds of acres of restored prairies, mature oak and maple forests, and a meandering creek.