Chalet+Nivale+Preserve


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Adams County
=Chalet Nivale Preserve=

Arc of Appalachia
Peebles, Ohio 45660 Chalet Nivale Preserve webpage Chalet Nivale Preserve map

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Chalet Nivale Preserve
Coordinates: 38.973956, -83.350109 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Chalet Nivale Preserve
The dolomite bedrock of Chalet Nivale creates a compelling karst-country landscape of springs, seeps, grottos, and sinkholes. These alkaline soils and bedrocks are renowned for producing a diverse assemblage of rare and endangered wildflowers, ferns, and shrubs, including herbs with prairie-associations, such as Climbing Milkvine, Stiff Gentian, and Tall Larkspur. Ancient White Cedar Trees, isolated hundreds of miles south of their normal range in the North Woods, cling to the bluffs of the cliffs. Chalet Nivale also shelters one of the largest colonies of snow trilliums in Ohio.They are the first of the spring wildflowers to emerge, usually in mid to late March, and are often caught in a late winter snowfall. Other rare spring wildflowers at Chalet Nivale include the limestone-loving Walter’s Violet, the smallest flowering violet in the eastern United States.

The three hiking trails at the 106-acre Chalet Nivale Preserve on Bacon Flat Road in Adams County are open to the public every day of the year from sunrise to sunset. Sorry, pets are not allowed at Chalet Nivale nor most of the Arc’s trail systems – please see Fort Hill and Serpent Mound where pets are permitted on leash. Two loop trails meander through the low floodplain created by two short tributaries of Scioto Brush Creek that have sculpted the bedrock into mossy slump blocks and intriguing outcrops, bounded by vertical cliffs. A third spur trail dissects a meadow that lies like a low bowl – surrounded by a rim of Appalachian hills. The spur trail provides pleasant panoramas of the surrounding hill country, especially during fall color season. From Chalet Nivale Preserve webpage

Photo by Ken Ostermiller

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