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Middlesex Fells Reservation451
in Stoneham, MAabout Middlesex Fells Reservation:
The Middlesex Fells Reservation's 2,575 acres offer a welcome retreat for city dwellers and a suitable terrain for hikers, horseback riders, rock climbers, cross-country skiers, and picnickers as well as natural and cultural history buffs.
Special features for visitors include the Sheepfold picnic area, Bellevue Pond, Virginia Wood, and Spot Pond. The Sheepfold is 10 acres of open field, ideal for picnics, frisbee playing and informal games. Bellevue Pond is a seasonal pond surrounded by trails and wide fire roads, some leading up to Wrights Tower which looks out over the Boston Basin. Virginia Wood, the site of a vanished mill village called "Haywardville" is now a dense hemlock enclave.
Trail maps for the Middlesex Fells Reservation can be obtained at Bookends Bookstore (559 Main St, Winchester; Map Shack (185 New Boston St, Woburn), or order by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope (with 2 first class stamps for each map) along with a personal check or money order made out the The Friends of Middlesex Fells Reservation (or FOF) for $5.00 per map. You can also get full trail maps online through www.fellsbiker.com, as well as a whole host of other info about the Fells.
Special features for visitors include the Sheepfold picnic area, Bellevue Pond, Virginia Wood, and Spot Pond. The Sheepfold is 10 acres of open field, ideal for picnics, frisbee playing and informal games. Bellevue Pond is a seasonal pond surrounded by trails and wide fire roads, some leading up to Wrights Tower which looks out over the Boston Basin. Virginia Wood, the site of a vanished mill village called "Haywardville" is now a dense hemlock enclave.
Trail maps for the Middlesex Fells Reservation can be obtained at Bookends Bookstore (559 Main St, Winchester; Map Shack (185 New Boston St, Woburn), or order by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope (with 2 first class stamps for each map) along with a personal check or money order made out the The Friends of Middlesex Fells Reservation (or FOF) for $5.00 per map. You can also get full trail maps online through www.fellsbiker.com, as well as a whole host of other info about the Fells.
getting there:
By MBTA, take the Orange Line to Wellington Station, MBTA bus #100 to Roosevelt Circle Rotary, walk south to the rotary, turn right on South Border Road, Bellevue Pond is 1/5 mile right on South Border Road. Sheepfold section exit on Elm Street, walk north on Route 28 about one mile underneath the overpass, sign is on the left. By car from the north, take 93 S to exit 35. At stop sign, take a left under hightway; at next stop sign take a right at first set of lights (rt28); take a right for Sheepfold entrance. Or take 93 South to exit 33(RT28N). Take first right onto South Border Road. Bellevue Pond on right. From the south, take 93 N to exit 33(RT28N) for Sheepfold or proceed halfway around rotary and take South Border Road for Bellevue Pond.
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