The website of Bolton Trails Committee. Maps, routes, paths and events on conservation land in Bolton Massachusetts
July 29, 2020
The trail was very overgrown at the parking lot on Wattaquadock Hill Road where the Gould Memorial Trail starts. This is a primary route to the Welch Pond area. So Gordon Taylor weed whacked and used hedge shears to clear Read more…
July 25, 2020
Somebody continues to decorate the trails with painted stones, cheerful messages and sound advice. Several more appeared in July.
Rebecca Longvall has assembled Bolton’s first self-guided walking tour. It’s on the Annie Moore land and starts at the Bolton Woods Way trailhead. You will need a smart phone with a QR reader app in order to follow the tour. Read more…
June 1, 2020
An unknown artist has been adding more painted stones to the trails on Wattaquadock Hill.
May 31, 2020
There continues to be damage to the Whitcomb Quarry (wholesale quarrying of the walls to extract specimens) as recently as Thursday 28 May 2020. Rebecca Longvall and Bob Roemer came up with stern language for a sign on the only Read more…
You might have noticed that the park bench from the “Park Bench Trail” in the Rattlesnake area had disappeared recently. You might have also noticed that it was looking rather dilapidated and sad. Well it was temporarily removed by the Read more…
May 23, 2020
Bob and Alice Roemer have been very busy at the Lime Kiln Area preparing for expected visitors at the Memorial Day weekend. They installed an updated map on the kiosk at Trail Head 1. Then they replaced a bog bridge Read more…
On the morning of Friday 22 May 2020, Bob and Alice Roemer installed new bog bridges slightly west of the western Great Brook Bridge near Trail Head 1 to the Bob Horton Trail and Lime Kiln entrance to the Rattlesnake Read more…
May 16, 2020
Painted stones conveying many cheerful messages have been appearing on or near the Philbin-Salmon and Welch Pond Trails in the Wattaquadock Hill area. Examples have also been seen on Sawyer Road near the “Yoda Tree”. Do you know where that Read more…
May 6, 2020
Betsy noticed that Bolton residents are adding small cheerful art to places around town at this difficult time. She saw this at the Philbin-Salmon trail head on West Berlin Road. There are some rock sculptures at various places around town Read more…