The trails winding through Marion’s Point Road Memorial Forest are meant to celebrate “a walk in the woods,” said member of the forest’s Advisory Committee Chrissie Bascom.

Bascom and her fellow committee member Tess Cederholm guided residents through the only burial site for solely cremated remains on Sunday, June 3.

The Stone family donated the two-acre parcel of land to the town in 1994.

The layout of the cemetery and the trails were designed by Wareham resident Patty Wylde.

The committee’s aim was to keep the natural setting of the forest intact, Bascom said.

“Patty had a clear idea of what it would be,” Bascom said. “There would be only native plants and unobtrusive markers.”

Cederholm also commended Wylde’s work.

“Patty was just inspirational,” she said.

In keeping with the “natural” setting, the committee had benches carved from tree stumps placed along the trails.

Anything other than wooden benches would not have been “in line with the woodlands,” she said.

Most of the markers are unmarked, but that doesn’t mean the remains have been forgotten, Cederholm said.

“It’s very, very clear where people have been buried, and where they could be buried,” she said.

“The plots are along the trails, and as you can see with the forest, the space can be unlimited.”

The committee maintains maps of the plots, which it keeps at the Town House and at the Department of Public Works.

The names for unmarked plots are also carved in Memorial Circle, a granite marker in the middle of the trail.

“We thought we had such wonderful potential for this to be a meditative place for the remains of our loved ones,” Cederholm said.  “We spent a lot of time looking at the land and we realized how magical this property is.”