Birch Hill Dam / Lake Dennison Trai
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Æü Main St 2.2 mi 2.2 W78 DCR Goodnow Rd between River & Middle Rds 0.6mi Hill Parking W80 DCR North intersection of Goodnow & River Rds W90 FISHING W82 DCR West Rd WMA Kapt. W84 DCR South intersection of Goodnow & River Rds __McLaughlin New Korner W86 DCR River Rd eastern gate, near the former shooting range Trail On RTE 202 RTE Royalston Right 2.6 mi R08 USACE Swamp Rd near Beaver Pond Boston Rd W12 Winchendon R10 USACE Liberty Lane / Swamp Rd at poowerlines W14 W12 DCR Royalston Rd South, South of McGlaughlin Trail Townline 1.1 mi .38 mi .38 Lane W14 DCR Intersection Alger Rd & Royalston Rd South Bunny Trailhead W18 DCR Royalston Rd South near Dennison Boat ramp Transmission Lines Æü Rd Boston New M1 W88 North Campground W58 USACE Lake Dennison Day Use entrance, off of MA RTE 202 0.5 mi HANDICAP Burgess Rd SNOW ACCESS- W72 DCR New Boston Rd South near Old RTE 202 0.5 mi Lake Dennsion MOBILING IBLE M1 Located at end of paved New Boston Rd W70 Neale Rd Campground Beaver Swamp Rd .92 Royalston0.6 mi Rd W68 Entrance 0.2 mi W18 W66 W76 W74 Birch Hill / Lake Dennison Area: Trail Guide M id 0.5 mi New Bo Lake !( POI Other Numbered Highway d W72 l 0.3 mi W78 e Alger St Dennison üÆ Parking Major Road, Collector R ston Rd d Neale Rd Neale River Rd S Royalston Day Use East CampgroundFoot Path Town Line R10 W80 0.62 mi Mi Area Section 1 Birch Hill Stream d $ 0.41 mi Æü Beaver d W W62 Pond 0.38 mi l W60 Section Links Surface Water e e s !( Lake Dennison CROSS W82 t Rd Chief CANOEING R W58Section 2 Birch Hill Federal ± COUNTRY W64 Day use area R08 Beaver Pond d Metacomet SKI 0.83 mi SECTION 1 mi 1.32 Entrance Rd Elevation in Feet DCR-State Parks & Recreation 0.54 mi Meeting Place River Rd 0.64 mi TransmissionBirch Hill WMA Lines w River Rd o TH 0.68 mi n R04 Swamp Rd d o Sibley Rd Æü 1.27 mi M o P Access d i r l 1.14 mi G l i Wetmore Trail e R e !( r s s t r D W84 Hiking/ B 18 mi 18 1. R e r R06 a Footpath Ri o v R Main St m W86 v i e o e o iv Only r k r y Access R R a Æü USACE Office d l s t o New Boston Rd n Royalston R02 R Winchendon !( d S New Boston Rd o $ u t Wilder-McKenzie Trail Wilder-McKenzie Burgess Rd Neale Rd Birch Hill Dam Rd Winchendon h North Camping SWIMMING HIKING Royalston Ground Campground/In SeasonM id Templeton d New Boston Rd OtterLake River !( l To Section e Templeton Parking/TH R Dennison Two River Rd d StateEastern Camping Forest Beaman Pond Neale Rd 1.83 mi Ground 1.21 mi M i .83 miles W d Chief To S. Royalston Village Campground e 2.24 mi Beaver Pond Ftp st d Metacomet d l R e Alger StDCR Office/ R d R Meeting Place and River St. Birch Hill Beaver Pond Rd w Ft d o p River Rd F Otter River Otter River Off season n t TH Æü d p US Army Corps o o Campground Parking/5.36 mi ofTH Engineers G D State Forest a R m T64 ive Millers r 3.51 mi Entrance 4.22 mi R River Tod Baldwinville RTE 68 New Boston Rd Beamon Pond WMA Camp Ground Birch Hill Dam Rd Royalston Winchendon Templeton Templeton Otter River To S. Royalston Otter River State Forest Village and RiverRTE 202St. State Forest RTE 68 HORSE- CAMPING BACK RIDING Rd Royalston Mile Map produced by Erica Rader, Bobby Curley, and Amy Richard. Graphic Design by Amy Richard. Contributing Editor Allen Young. Map Produced by Erica Rader and Robert Curley. Copyright NQTA 2015 September 18, 2014 0 0.25 0.5 0.75 1 Mike Phillips Photography Phillips Mike http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/dioramas Mike Phillips Mike ~ Dioramas courtesy of Harvard Forest - For more information visit visit information more For - Forest Harvard of courtesy Dioramas ~ into forests, and today most of our region is wooded. is region our of most today and forests, into Royalston / Winchendon / Royalston Mike Phillips Mike west or to factory villages. These former fields quickly grew grew quickly fields former These villages. factory to or west Bobby Curley Bobby ture, farmers began abandoning their lands as they moved moved they as lands their abandoning began farmers ture, Farm Abandonment Farm - agricul of peak the after Shortly – Bobby Curley Bobby places. each farm, and larger woodlands in very steep or wet wet or steep very in woodlands larger and farm, each and hayfields, with small heavily managed woodlots on on woodlots managed heavily small with hayfields, and around 80% of the land was cleared and used as pasture pasture as used and cleared was land the of 80% around Peak Of Agriculture Of Peak – by the middle of the 1800s, 1800s, the of middle the by – to Town Line Trailhead. Trailhead. Line Town to becomes an improved dirt road, road, dirt improved an becomes onto New Boston Rd. Follow New Boston Rd until it it until Rd Boston New Follow Rd. Boston New onto was forested. was Neale Rd. Continue on Neale Rd and take a right right a take and Rd Neale on Continue Rd. Neale settlers moved into central Massachusetts, most of the land land the of most Massachusetts, central into moved settlers Follow RTE 68, take a left on on left a take 68, RTE Follow Village/RTE 68: 68: Village/RTE Presettlement Forest Presettlement – When European-American European-American When – * TOWN LINE TH From South Royalston Royalston South From TH LINE TOWN * area. Fits 8-10 vehichles. 8-10 Fits area. 16.92 miles 16.92 Total mileage: Total 202 in Winchendon. Follow MAIN ST mile to parking parking to mile ST MAIN Follow Winchendon. in 202 accessed off RTE RTE off accessed miles 3.25 Trail: Loop McGlaughlin * MAIN ST PARKING AREA PARKING ST MAIN * recreation. recreation. All dogs need to be on a leash. a on be to need dogs All Wetmore Loop Trail: 4.6 miles. miles. 4.6 Trail: Loop Wetmore and follow all the way to the parking area on the left. left. the on area parking the to way the all follow and All trails are open to all types of of types all to open are trails All Trail Uses: Trail and DCR Rec Trail Grant programs. Grant Trail Rec DCR and SECTION 2: SECTION $8.00 continue until fork in the road. Take the right fork fork right the Take road. the in fork until continue This Trail Map & Guide is made possible from the Q2C Q2C the from possible made is Guide & Map Trail This Section One Outer Loop Trail: 5.37 miles 5.37 Trail: Loop Outer One Section wildlife, people and flood control. flood and people wildlife, After rail road crossing, bear right onto River St and and St River onto right bear crossing, road rail After Boston Rd (dirt road) and onto section two. section onto and road) (dirt Rd Boston Middle Road Footpath: 5.00 miles 5.00 Footpath: Road Middle they work together to manage the land for the benefit of of benefit the for land the manage to together work they take a left onto RTE 68 and cross railroad tracks.