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

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Haynes-Wheeler Sign Replaced

The Haynes-Wheeler property was a gift to the Town by Levi Wheeler in 1970. Levi had lived at hisgrandparent’s home on Sawyer Rd. in what is now the Schultz Farm house. This property is mapped along with the Fyfeshire Conservation Read more…


Four more bridges and a connector completed

The Bridge Project has continued apace.  The team of Chris DeMers, Larry Kunz, Keith Silver, Drew Schaubhut and Gordon Taylor, assisted by Henry Jacobsen, built or replaced four more mixed use bridges and crossings at the Moen area of Vaughn Read more…


Earth Day weekend walk to Ballville

On Sunday 21 April 2024 Abbie Maguire of the Bolton Trails Committee led a hike around the new Ballville trails. The group followed the full circuit starting at the northern trailhead and continuing through the North Brook Valley. They took Read more…


Culvert Clearance at Bowers.

On Saturday 29 June 2024 Larry Kunz, George Lewinne, and Larry’s grandaughter Izzy did some exploration and clearing around the clogged entry and exit areas of the blocked culvert that’s been overflowing for the past year or so.   Nobody Read more…


Work on Two more Bridges at Vaughn Hills

In June 2024, work continued on building the wooden structures for 2 more bridges in the Moen area associated with the Vaughn Hills Conservation property. The team consists of Drew Schaubhut. Larry Kunz, Chris DeMers, Keith Silver and Gordon Taylor, 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…


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…