The website of Bolton Trails Committee. Maps, routes, paths and events on conservation land in Bolton Massachusetts
July 1, 2024
On 25 May 2024, The Bolton Trails Committee hosted a chainsaw safety training session led by Steve Schneider. 12 members of the volunteer trail maintenance team took part. This was largely a theoretical session and demonstration of basic techniques for Read more…
February 3, 2024
The Bolton Conservation Trust and Bolton Trails Committee hosted a New Year’s Day hike to kick off 2024. There were about 40 total people enjoying the sunny 38F day. The walk started at the lacrosse field on Main St, walking Read more…
January 20, 2024
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…
January 13, 2024
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…
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…
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…
November 19, 2023
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…
October 23, 2023
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.
October 17, 2023
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…
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…