In VanRaalte Farm Park winters are beautiful. Depending on the year this park can get a lot of snow. The trails are still open and maintained for cross country skiers and hickers. This park also provides a big sledding hill that is open to the public all day long. There are rules to the hill located on the trail just for the safety of people that go sledding there. When it snows the trees sparkle with all the piled up snow it is a great walk, and the park stays bussy this time of year. In the winter the parking lots are plowed every day and are maintained, so that cars and other people can get in easy. When walking through the park you will still see lots of animals, most besides lots of the birds stay in the park. Winters are cold like normal but if you bundle up you will be fine and have a great time in this park this time of year.
Plants and Animals
In this park in the winter besides the pine trees all the leef bearing tree's leaves fall off. Trees like this go into hibernation mode, but still are beautiful with all the snow on it. All the weeds and other flowers go away including the bugs. Bugs burrow deep in the ground or go into hibernation mode also, lots do die from the cold first frosts to. Some animals in this park will and do start to make dens, they grow thick winter coats for the cold wether, or go into hibernation mode. Animals also herd up in the winter like the turkey and deer that are located in this park. Instead of seeing 1 or 2 deer you now could see up to 30 deer in a small area.
Example of how deer and other animals herd up during the winters around the states, you see 8 deer herded up looking for food together. Deer don't just herd up just to look for food and stay wormer they do this because during hard winters they are more prone to attacks from other animals like the coyotes, when they are in herds they stay safer in bigger groups.
