The Natural Resources Trust of Easton offers not only short hiking/walking paths along pastoral fields and woods, but also an opportunity to make friends with the resident chickens, sheep, and bull. Admission is free. “BAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH.” He was at it again. Benny was making weird animal sounds for no apparent reason. Experience told me that if […]
easy hikes in massachusetts
Discovering the Douglas S. Westgate Conservation Area in Wareham
The Douglas S. Westgate Conservation Area, located in Western Wareham, Massachusetts, offers trails that meander along a river, an old railroad bed, and abandoned cranberry bogs that Mother Nature is slowly reclaiming as her own.
Peaceful Destruction Brook Woods
Trails in Destruction Brook Woods in Dartmouth, MA will lead you into a valley, near a vernal pool, by an old spillway, and past a farmhouse foundation.
Westport’s Beautiful Island Hike
Where in Southcoast Massachusetts can you go on an island hike without having to hop on a ferry? In the southernmost point of Westport, MA, you’ll find such a place. Gooseberry Island is a small, 73 acre island that’s connected to the mainland via a causeway.
Sunshine at East Over Reservation, Rochester, MA
Walk through old New England farm fields at the East Over Reservation in Rochester, MA.