August 1, 2025
A huge paper was nest was hanging over the Bob Horton Trail at Rattlesnake. So Bob Roemer donned a bee keeper suit, cut the nest down and securely sealed in a big trash bag for disposal. No insecticides were used. Read more…
The website of Bolton Trails Committee. Maps, routes, paths and events on conservation land in Bolton Massachusetts

August 1, 2025
A huge paper was nest was hanging over the Bob Horton Trail at Rattlesnake. So Bob Roemer donned a bee keeper suit, cut the nest down and securely sealed in a big trash bag for disposal. No insecticides were used. Read more…
December 16, 2024
In late November 2024 the “core” Bridge team of Larry Kunz, Keith Silver, Chris DeMers, and Gordon Taylor, plus the contractors Bob Hatch and Stephanie Frend were joined by a group of volunteers, including six boy scouts, to take materials Read more…
December 15, 2024
The final assembly of the remaining bridges at the Vaughn Hills and Moen Conservation Areas was completed in November and early December 2024. The activity is part of the project funded under a state grant obtained by Cindy Ayotte. The Read more…
October 10, 2024
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…
October 8, 2024
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…
August 11, 2024
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…
July 3, 2024
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…
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…
January 13, 2024
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…
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