Bolton Trails

The website of Bolton Trails Committee. Maps, routes, paths and events on conservation land in Bolton Massachusetts

New Destination Signs at Danforth

In September 2020, Gordon Taylor made four new signs  for the Danforth Brook area. There were three destination signs and a marker for the summit of Barretts Hill.  The signs were needed to highlight the various routes away from the Read more…


Downed Tree cleared at Wilder Pond

On September 16, Bob Roemer, Rebecca Longvall and Steve Rothman responded to the report to The Bolton Conservation Trust of a downed tree on the Wilder Pond Trails (boltontrails.org/map14). They also followed up on a previous effort by Rebecca and Read more…


All Trails Club gets bigger

In the Summer of 2020, several new names were added to the All Trails Club membership list. Congratulations to all: All Trails Club Members There are still plenty of patches left for the first 100 members. So keep on hiking.


Blocked Trails Cleared at Danforth Brook

On Wednesday September 9 a team of Steve Rothman, Larry Kunz, Betsy Taylor-Kennedy and Gordon Taylor got together for a socially distanced and masked effort to clear trails at the Danforth Brook area where recent storms had brought down several Read more…


Annie Moore Trail Work

A downed tree was removed from the trail near Annie Moore Road.  Additionally, a sign which had been taken down along with a fallen tree has been rehung near Bolton-Stow junction.


Wind damage at Rattlesnake

Bob and Alice Roemer cleared three trees at Rattlesnake on Saturday  August 15. The cooler weather made this a much more pleasurable job than it would have been a day or two earlier. It appears that stronger winds (microbursts?) seem Read more…


Blockages on the cart track at Gould-White

The early August 2020 storm brought down an old and rotten tree over the cart track on the Gould-White area, adjacent to the Wallie land and very close to the intersection with Sawyer Road. Gordon Taylor and Betsy Taylor-Kennedy cleared Read more…


Blocked trails at Bowers

A large tree fell on the Bowers Springs property during the early August 2020 storm. It was blocking two trails; the main trail as it descends from the allee, and the connection over the “big bridge” to  the Held CR Read more…


Covid-19 Guidelines and Training for volunteers,

The Bolton Conservation Commission has released guidelines for volunteers while working on trails during the pandemic. The  protocols were originally developed by a task force of Appalachian Trail Conservancy staff, A.T. volunteer leaders, NPS-APPA and USFS staff. Also included is Read more…


Tree blow down at Annie Moore cleared

The early August 2020 storm brought down a tree just south of the Bolton-Stow intersection with the cart track to the Annie Moore Rd cul-de-sac. Another tree with a trail sign about 100′ south from there had also fallen. On Read more…