Adjacent to the abbey store, upon leaving the Reception Center & Gift Shop, the St. Clare Garden Path provides the perfect quiet, serene reflective walk into Mepkin's larger landscape.Canopied in the shade of all kinds of foliage and flowers, this garden walk is an inviting spot to stop and offer a moment of prayer, praise, and/or thanksgiving to God. In the wintertime, then St. Clare Garden Path is also host to a number of the abbey’s unique outdoor Creche displays during Mepkin’s renowned annual Creche festival.