Table of Contents
Locator Map/Key to Icons iv
At-a-Glance Trip Planner viii
Preface xvi
Acknowledgments xviii
Introduction xix
How to Use This Book xx
Trip Planning and Safety xxi
Leave No Trace xxiv
1 Boston/Inside Routes 95 and 128 1
1 Middlesex Fells: Skyline Trail 3
2 Middlesex Fells: Reservoir Trail 8
3 Middlesex Fells: Rock Circuit Trail 12
4 Middlesex Fells: Cross Fells Trail 16
5 Breakheart Reservation 21
6 Lynn Woods Reservation 25
7 Arnold Arboretum 29
8 Spectacle Island 34
9 Stony Brook Reservation 39
10 Blue Hills Reservation: Observation Tower Loop 44
11 Blue Hills Reservation: Great Blue Hill Green Loop 49
12 Blue Hills Reservation: Ponkapoag Pond 53
13 Blue Hills Reservation: Houghton's Pond Yellow Dot Loop 58
14 Blue Hills Reservation: Skyline Trail 62
2 North of Boston 69
15 Weir Hill Reservation 71
16 Charles W. Ward Reservation 75
17 Baker's Meadow 80
18 Bald Hill Reservation 84
19 Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary 88
20 Bradley Palmer State Park 93
21 Parker River National Wildlife Refuge (Plum Island) 97
22 Old Town Hill 102
23 Crane Beach 106
24 Ravenswood Park 111
25 Halibut Point State Park and Reservation 115
3 West of Boston 119
26 Wachusett Reservoir and Reservation 121
27 Mount Pisgah Conservation Area 126
28 Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge 130
29 Great Brook Farm State Park 134
30 Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge 138
31 Minute Man National Historical Park: Battle Road Trail 142
32 Walden Pond 146
33 Lincoln Conservation Land 151
34 Nobscot Hill and Tippling Rock 155
35 Callahan State Park 159
36 Sudbury Reservoir 164
37 Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary 169
38 Rocky Narrows Reservation and Sherborn Town Forest 173
39 Noanet Woodlands 178
40 Rocky Woods Reservation 182
4 South of Boston/Cape Cod 187
41 Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary 189
42 Borderland State Park 194
43 Ames Nowell State Park 198
44 Great Esker Park 202
45 World's End Reservation 207
46 Whitney and Thayer Woods 212
47 Massasoit State Park 217
48 Burrage Pond 221
49 North Hill Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary 225
50 Aliens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary 229
51 West Island 234
52 Myles Standish State Forest 238
53 Ellisville Harbor State Park 243
54 Lowell Holly Reservation 247
55 Sandy Neck Circuit 251
56 Nickerson State Park 256
57 Fort Hill 260
58 Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary 265
59 Great Island 270
60 Cape Cod National Seashore: Pilgrim Heights 275
Nature and History Essays
Introduced Pests: A Threat to Our Eastern Forests 38
An Urban Oasis 48
Endangered Predator: Eastern Timber Rattlesnake 67
The Life and Times of a Bog 79
Massachusetts^ Watershed Wilderness 125
Henry David Thoreau: Naturalist, Explorer, and Writer 150
King Philip's War: An Early American Conflict 177
Climate Change in New England 206
Cranberries in New England 216
Great White Sharks Return to Massachusetts 264
The Birth of Cape Cod National Seashore 279
Appendices
A Camping and State Parks 280
B The Bay Circuit Trail 286
Index 288
About the Authors 293
About AMC in Massachusetts 293
AMC Books Updates 293