Bolton Trails

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

MassMapper Adds Lidar Layer to Show Topography

MassGIS, the Beaureau of Geography Information released a new Lidar layer to visualize the topography of land within Massachusetts without area. What is Lidar? Light Detection and Ranging, a technology used to create high-resolution models of ground elevation with a Read more…


Summit Series is closed

Summit Series The Summit Series of hikes was limited to 2023 or until all the hats have been claimed! A small number of hats are remaining as of January 2024, so if you are close to completion now is the Read more…


Bridge project underway

In 2022 Bolton was awarded a State grant to build a set of multi-use bridges after a first class effort by Cynthia Ayotte. These bridges are to be suitable for many types of trail users. The award was noted in Read more…


Ballville Trails mapped, arrowed and cleared

During the last two years, Trails Committee members Drew Schaubhut, Gordon Taylor, Larry Kunz and Rebecca Bucciaglia assisted by Abbie Maguire, Winslow Green and Betsy Taylor-Kennedy have been working on a new set of trails in the Ballville Road area Read more…


Will we have more ospreys in Bolton?

In Summer 2017, ospreys nested on the cell phone tower at the Bolton Transfer Station on Forbush Mill Road and in the last two Summers an osprey family has nested on a tree in the pond at Vaughn Hills, but Read more…


Buckthorn removed at Bowers Springs

Jan Johnson reported to the Trails Committee that there was a lot of buckthorn next to ponds at Bowers Springs. So on October 12 Larry Kunz teamed up with her to remove much of it.


Poison Ivy Cleared from the Noreen Beck Memorial bench

The memorial bench to Noreen Beck at Bowers Springs had become unusable because of poison ivy. So much that it had become a discussion topic online. So on the weekend of 14 October 2023, Larry Kunz braved the vegetation and Read more…


2023 has been a busy year for trail maintenance

The 2023 weather has caused many trees to fall and block trails, also the good growing conditions have encouraged the undergrowth to spread onto trails in many places, sometimes with a lot of poison ivy. Volunteers have cleared worked with Read more…


Additional Quarry on Rattlesnake

Evidence of quarry

Bolton Trails Committee member Bob Roemer hikes at Rattlesnake regularly.  One day during hike, he realized that some of the trails had (2J to 2H) been well travelled by heavy vehicles in the past (oxen carts) which suggested that there Read more…


Backyard Bolton August 2023

The Bolton Trails Committee and the Bolton Conservation Trust were present at Backyard Bolton on Saturday August 26th.  There was a lot of interest and many people stopped by to say hello, buy a trail guide, pick up a sticker, Read more…