A fairy house at the base of a tree with a walkway and floor of mussel shells.
A sign on a tree urges visitors to keep the woods pristine along the trail, which has long been home to numerous fairy houses. An island association is urging visitors not to build fairy houses because too many people have been taking live bark off trees and using moss to build them.
A wall of sticks provides a barrier into a fairy house at the base of a tree on Monhegan Island.
Pine cones create a walkway to a fairy house.
Tourists walk along the Cathedral Woods trail on Monhegan Island, passing a fairy house at the base of a birch tree.
A fairy house made of twigs, birch bark and shells.
A fairy house with a labyrinth of snail shells.
Lillian Harris, with the Monhegan Associates, says the island association is working to discourage tourists who visit Monhegan from building fairy houses.
People walk past a fairy house on Cathedral Woods trail on Monhegan Island.
A fairy house built at the base of a tree along Cathedral Woods trail on Monhegan Island.
A simple fairy house on Cathedral Woods trail on Monhegan Island.
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