“These hills fathered and mothered me. I am blood of their blood and bone of their bone, and why should I not go back to them in my last years?”

- John Burroughs, Literary Naturalist, 1910

Woodchuck Lodge was built by John’s brother in 1862, 15 years after John was born, on the east end of the Burroughs family farm. The Burroughs’ homestead where both boys grew up is a mile away up the road and was built when John was 13 years of age. Woodchuck Lodge was John’s retreat in retirement. John Burroughs’ grave is a stroll up the road from Woodchuck Lodge at Boyhood Rock.

Today, the Lodge is also a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the historic structure and to promoting the ideas and legacy of Burroughs through events and activities that encourage people to live, work and prosper in harmony with nature.