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Bluestem: A hike for all eternity
Have you ever been hiking through an area that was so captivating that you didn’t want to leave — ever? Well, that dream can come true at Bluestem, a fledgling 87-acre nature preserve in northern Orange County North Carolina. Here, you can walk through open pastures, in fringe forest, along a small piedmont creek, past a farm pond … and when you’re done hiking — for good — pick your favorite place in the preserve and stake your claim — for eternity. Because Bluestem isn’t another nature preserve with 3 or 4 miles of hiking trail, it’s also a conservational burial ground, a place where you can have a low-impact green burial and not only enjoy the rolling Piedmont landscape in perpetuity, but become a part of it as well.
Recently we caught up with Heidi Hannapel and Jeff Masten to learn more about this emerging conservation cemetery — and hiking destination — that they’re creating northwest of Durham.
For more information on:
In the News
To learn about the nearly 90 seasonal road closures in North Carolina National Forests, go here.
Have you ever been hiking through an area that was so captivating that you didn’t want to leave — ever? Well, that dream can come true at Bluestem, a fledgling 87-acre nature preserve in northern Orange County North Carolina. Here, you can walk through open pastures, in fringe forest, along a small piedmont creek, past a farm pond … and when you’re done hiking — for good — pick your favorite place in the preserve and stake your claim — for eternity. Because Bluestem isn’t another nature preserve with 3 or 4 miles of hiking trail, it’s also a conservational burial ground, a place where you can have a low-impact green burial and not only enjoy the rolling Piedmont landscape in perpetuity, but become a part of it as well.
Recently we caught up with Heidi Hannapel and Jeff Masten to learn more about this emerging conservation cemetery — and hiking destination — that they’re creating northwest of Durham.
For more information on:
In the News
To learn about the nearly 90 seasonal road closures in North Carolina National Forests, go here.