Trailbuilding on the Millstone

On Saturday March 24th, 16 volunteers welcomed Spring by blazing new trails along the Millstone River. The diligent trailbuilders, joined by three energetic children, worked for several hours raking, chain sawing, and cutting back branches and brambles, creating the new trails. The trails offer lovely views of the Millstone River, a variety of trees, and pass through a Tolkiensque section of twisted vines and trees- a veritable Mirkwood. The trails are located on preserved land that is bordered by Joanne Street, the Millstone River, Bear Brook, and the NE Corridor Rail line. To access the trails, please park at the Millstone Preserve parking lot on Millstone Rd, and walk the short distance down Millstone Rd. to Joanne St., and then down to the end of Joanne Street.

The preserved land, formerly known as the Astura and Gunther properties, is now part of the Millstone River Preserve. Once one more parcel along Millstone Road is preserved, there will be continuous preserved land and trails along the Millstone River from Grovers Mill Pond to the train tracks. We will be meeting again the coming weeks to build more trails on this part of the Preserve.

Our volunteer crew consisted of Dave, Katherine, Matthew and Andrew Osborn, Tim Cresson, Robin Miller, Roger Alig, Ace Miller, Frank Potter, Laxma and Sula Kolla, Newell Benedict, Ham Pkardooni, Ted Ross, Ron Slinn, and Ken Carlson. Many thanks to Kevin Appelget for helping to lay out the trail network.