Here's the trail marker of The Trustees of Reservations, the organization that owns Ward Reservation and around 100 other properties in Massachusetts. Working with similar agencies they are planning a "Bay Circuit Trail" to link reserves in a HUGE arc around Boston between Routes 128 and 495. Their great management of Ward Reservation includes a carefully plowed parking lot, a hilltop Solstice Ring, trail intersection signs with whole sentences, and a well-documented interpretive bog trail. Two things I would like to see improved are: opening access to the fire lookout tower (where the best view is currently forbidden) and standing the solstice stones upright (so they can be appreciated in winter). |