Bolton Trails

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

Map Updates

New maps for the New Year! The Rattlesnake Hill and Vicinity map has been completely re vamped with updated trails including the Sawyer Grist Mill section. There is more information about the industrial archeology to be found in the area Read more…


New Mailbox

Bolton Trails Committee has its own mailbox. It is monitored constantly. We are very grateful to Bolton Conservation Trust for paying for this. info@boltontrails.org Please make sure that this is not on your spam email list! So all communication to Read more…


Blockages on Trails from the Common, Town Hall and First Parish Church

The recent snowstorms have caused some trees to break and fall over. Some notable cases were near the Center of Town on the Powder House Trails, The Ronald W Evans Memorial Trail and the Old Town Road. On Thursday 12 Read more…


New Kiosk and trail clearing at Annie Moore

Nick Matte has completed the Bolton Woods Way kiosk. The design was modified from the Vaughn Hills  kiosk and it is more sturdy with additional supports. Additionally, Gordon provided us with the updated Annie Moore map which allowed us to Read more…


New online maps

The mapping team (Chris Fitzgerald, Gregg Matte, Steve Rothman, Hemali Parekh, Rebecca Longvall and Gordon Taylor) has been busy. A new base has been assembled and area maps are now available for: Fyfeshire with the new Haynes-Wheeler trail added Vaughn Read more…


Bowers Springs Cleanup – the work continues

For four days from Friday 1 to Monday 4 of November 2019, Larry Kunz led a team on Phases 6 and 7 of the Bowers Springs cleanup. Friday: An additional 100 ft of edging trimmed and positioned in a short Read more…


Trees cleared next to Vaughn Hills Pond

One Wednesday 30 October Larry Kunz, Steve Rothman, Jeff Bryan and Gordon Taylor set out on in good humor on a damp and miserable day and cleared a number of fallen and rotten trees on the perimeter trail of the Read more…


Downed Tree on Rattlesnake Hill

Just before dusk on Tuesday 22 October 2019 Bob and Alice Roemer cleared a huge trail blockage caused by a the fallen top of a large oak tree. It was located between trail junctions 2E and 2F in the Rattlesnake Read more…


Bowers Springs clean up Episode 3

Larry Kunz has done a heroic job of organizing work parties at Bowers Springs. He continued to lead the effort on the weekend of 19 and 20 October Saturday: We got a lot done today given the small crew of Read more…


Fallen Tree Cleared on Horton Trail

On 18 October, Bob and Alice Roemer cleared a large pine (18”) between Junction Markers 1F & 1B on the Bob Horton Trail about 50’ west of 1F. The base of the tree was directly adjacent to the north wall Read more…