The Cemetery Trail is a .65 mile, moderate difficulty trail, that is accessible from the same beach access as the Wash Woods Interpretive Trail and from the Interior Trail. This trail makes a particularly sandy crossing over the dunes and across the Interior Trail. The trail is named for the cemetery and former church site through which it passes. The Wash Woods Methodist Church was abandoned in 1922 and succumbed to the migrating dunes and Atlantic storms that have virtually wiped away the former community of Wash Woods. Today, all that remains is part of the steeple and the nearby graveyard. One can see that all of the graves are positioned with the head pointed towards the west, in tune with the strong Christian tradition.
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