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Harold Parker State Forest
Follow this guide for an extensive loop around this enormous Forest Preserve which is packed with trails to explore
Follow this guide for an extensive loop around this enormous Forest Preserve which is packed with trails to explore
10.0 mi
16.1 km
16.1 km
Guides
Follow this guide for an extensive loop around this enormous Forest Preserve which is packed with trails to explore
Community Trips
11-7-10 trek to Backside of Beyond with bushwhack exploration of landbridge between 2 swamps
North Reading, Massachusetts, United States
2.9 miles
2.9 miles
Wanted a long trek deep into the woods today, but didn't want the same old same old, so decided to combine a maintenance run into my geocache, Backside of Beyond (BoB), with some bushwhack exploration of the N side of the large central swamp. Never been on that side of that swamp, so today seemed a good time to do it. GoogleEarth satellite imagery indicated that to get all the way around...
A great spot for early season warm-ups for the bigger hikes of summer.
This is a nice 3 mile hike around two ponds in Harold Parker State Forest that are seldom seen, since they are off the main road through the park. This time of year(July) the ponds are filled with lily pads, and we did catch a glimpse of a heron. Very picturesque and amazing quiet. The hike can easily be shortened by not circumnavigating Salem Pond, or lengthened into a loop hike of...
Parked at P10 for Return to Cretaceous cache. Hiked in and explored some bushwhacking routes.
Kurchian and I are hunting one of the famous Rexrider 98 caches. It will be a three day effort. This is the 2nd leg of the adventure.
Backside of Beyond cache 2-13-10 maintenance run
North Reading, Massachusetts, United States
2.7 miles
2.7 miles
Maintenance run into my geocache, Backside of Beyond, on a sunny, cold Saturday. Rexrider98
I parked at P9, my first time entering Boxwoods from this location. I followed the trail, but made a wrong right turn and had to back-track. Then I made the correct right turn but missed the trail when it took a slight left turn. I went quite a ways, but then bushwhacked back about 0.2 miles to the swamp, and eventually found WTT8. I had notions of also getting WTT1, but I...
Parked at P9 on N. Liberty St. Headed straight for WTT1. Found it after a bit of searching. Crossed the famous beaver dam and bushwhacked to WTT2 (nearby "lake" was dry). These were the last two waypoints I needed to solve the coordinates of WTT9, which I then found. Next I used the key at WTT9 to find the coordinates for WTT10, which I went on to find. I have not...
