Lee and Karen Duquette,
The Two RV Gypsies: Full-Time RVers
at Boxerwood Nature Center and Woodland Garden
963 Ross Road
Lexington, Virginia 24450
phone '540.463.2697 for hours and more.

Boxerwood Nature Center and Woodland Garden is a 15-acre arboretum featuring both native and unusual plant specimens, located within a larger preserve at 963 Ross Road near Lexington in Rockbridge County, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. Established as a private garden in 1952, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. Parking was free for members; and $5 for non-members, as per their brochure obtained at the park. (Any of this could change as time passes)

The Arboretum contains thousands of labeled trees and shrubs, including 1,300 cultivars, with fine collections of dwarf conifers, magnolias, dogwoods, rhododendrons, azaleas and Japanese maples. There were not a lot of flowers in bloom while Lee and Karen Duquette were here.

Boxerwood Nature Center has a Play Trail in the nature playground designed especially for young children. Kids can run through the plant tunnels, float leaves down the mini creek, make pies in the mud kitchen, climb tiny house mountain and more. The rules INCLUDE "make noise," "touch anything," "get dirty," and "have fun". There is also a Fairy Forest where children can build their own fairy structures, and a wetland walk where visitors can cross the zigzag bridge over the garden wetlands. In fall 2016, a pollinator garden was added to the gardens. Lee and Karen Duquette glanced into the playground, but of course they did not explore it.

Below: A Running man made of twigs

Below: A red tree

Below: Karen Duquette likes uniquely shaped trees with no leaves.

Below: Turtles at Boxerwood Nature Center

Below: The unique archway above the path down to the pond.

Below: Karen Duquette had a bit of a struggle getting up into the big chair at Boxerwood.

Below: The scenery behind the Big Chair shown above.

Below: Lee Duquette found a big, friendly deer.

Below: Lee and Karen Duquette stopped at Jordan's Point Park, but it was just a picnic area.

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