Disclaimer and Cautions: The Bay Circuit Alliance, as the advocate and promoter of the Bay Circuit Trail, expressly disclaims responsibility for injuries or damages that may arise from using the trail. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of maps or completeness of warnings about hazards that may exist. Portions of the trail are along roads or train tracks and involve crossing them. Users should pay attention to traffic and walk on the shoulder of roads facing traffic, not on the pavement, cross only at designated locations and use extreme care. Children and pets need to be closely monitored and under control. Boxford Center to Sharpner's Pond Rd Middleton Rd. A N42 39.754 W70 59.864 0.0 Boxford Center . Boxford Bay Circuit Trail B N42 38.408 W70 59.447 map & Boxford Community Store on right 18.5 Cross Middleton Rd. Enter Bald Hill (food, restroom, parking (P=25+) available). Reservation at steel gate (P=8), where map Map 3 - Boxford, North Andover, Andover 0.1 Left onto Topsfield Rd. In 0.4 mi turn right of reservation is posted. Bald Hill onto Cahoon Rd for 0.15 mi; then right into Reservation consists of 5 parcels: JC Phillips BAY CIRCUIT TRAIL route Boy Scout Park (P=25+). Pass to left of Wildlife Sanctuary, Fish & Wildlife; Boxford (as shown on map 3 dated April 2015) playground, enter woods southwest corner State Forest, DCR; inholding wood lots, (text updated April 2015) of parking lot by following service drive. ECGB; Wunnegen, Town of Boxford; and Turn sharp left at field with pavilion and Cudhea Woods, New England Forestry The BCT often follows pre-existing local trails; pass through campfire circle. Follow blazes Foundation. BCT is marked with standard BCT-specific blazing is a work in progress and to exit between 2 houses onto Dana Rd. white blazes and number markers. Follow may be sparse in segments. We encourage you to (Note: if Boy Scouts are using park, bypass woods road to #17, turn right and go uphill. review and carry corresponding local maps on the park via Dana Rd). Take either path around the small pond, as the your BCT walk. 1.1 Right onto Dana Rd, then go thru the cul- trails rejoin. The right hand trail here has a Trail Notices regarding trail problems and de-sac and bear left onto the Dana Rd boardwalk. Turn left at #25. Proceed to #24, closures are posted on the website at extension. turn right and right again at #23. Cross over a www.baycircuit.org under the Explore tab. 1.2 At break in stone wall, right onto path to small stream. Go left at #22. Go left again at Please review them for updates to the trail guide enter Lockwood Forest, proceed to Fish #21. Keep left at next fork. Bear right at #26. and maps. Brook, then bear left. With Fish Brook on Turn right at the wooden gate marked "Trail right, in 0.2 mi enter field, proceed along Closed." Trail marking : The BCT is marked with white right edge; re-enter woods directly across 4.6 Right again at #8A (number not on DCR dollar bill-sized blazes, oriented vertically, field from where you entered the field. map, but sign on tree) where the main woods painted or nailed on trees or poles. Offset blazes Shortly, cross a stone retaining wall, bear road is rejoined. (For Bald Hill with partial indicate a turn in the direction of the upper blaze. right, pass old mill site on the right (note: view in winter, turn left at #8A, past #9, and In Bald Hill and Boxford SF, use numbered jcts horses not allowed along Fish Brook dam left at #10 and #27 to summit.) 0.2 mile west for location. On some AVIS properties other trails site trail). of #8A, jog left to cross bridge below beaver are also marked with white blazes; look for the 1.8 Right onto Lockwood Lane for 400 ft dam. Pass slightly obscured marker #8. Turn BCT logo at jct. crossing 2 bridges. Resume tr on left (south) right at #7, left at #6, bear left at unmarked Parking along the street is possible at some side of the street. Walk around the gate and jct 100 ft west of #6, then left at #2 when you trailheads. No parking allowed along Rte 114, follow the tr along the west bank of Fish enter graveled clearing near former ABM Gray Rd., Rte 125, Main St., or Central St. in Brook. Continue straight at 4 way woods rd site. Continue to bear left at unmarked #1 Andover. jct, bear right at fork, to stay on marked (ABM Pond is 500 feet to the right main trail up a hill, thru a wet spot, up a (northwest)) and proceed 0.2 mile to exit onto small hill past a kiosk (with BCT map) to parking lot. Map 3 April 2015 1 6.4 Boxford State Forest Sharpner's Pond Rd Shawsheen River (Andover) around north side of pit, circling back south parking lot (P=20+). * See trail change Harold Parker State Forest, Mass. DCR to large glacial erratic. postings; there are plans to re-route the 3.78 Right at erratic. trail away from the Sharpner’s Pond D N42 37.765 W71 03.903 3.93 Right (don’t cross bridge on left). Pass old Road and onto the Middleton trail system 0.0 Jct Rte 114 and Harold Parker Rd. Trail mill site. in 2015 enters forest on right in 70 yds. Use stone 4.16 Left onto Skug Reservation Trail. wall to cross wetland (cyclists and other 4.59 Left onto old rd. users can avoid this section--continue on 4.67 Right; cross long boardwalk. Boxford State Forest gate to Rte 114 Harold Parker Rd 0.25 mi, go right onto C N42 38.554 W71 02.161 trail, join BCT at 0.28). G N42 37.469 W71 06.012 0.0 Cross Forest St onto Sharpner's Pond Rd. 0.28 Right at T trail jct. 4.79 Salem St (parking lot, P=6) 0.8 After a group of mail boxes (#’s 492 – 480) 0.36 Left. and just after the end of the metal guard rail, 0.65 Left. Hammond Reservation, AVIS; and Mary but before the intersection of Essex/Salem 0.76 Right at trail jct. Follow woods rd. French Reservation, Cons.Com Streets, turn right down an embankment and 0.83 Right at trail jct. into the woods. The blaze for this turn is on 1.4 Straight across woods rd the guard rail well before the actual turn and 4.79 Cross Salem St from Skug parking lot into 1.34 Bear left often missed. Hammond Reservation , go 0.11 mi to rock 1.41 Left u hill to ridge; many turns. 0.9 Cross Salem St to enter state forest land. wall/trail intersection. Continue straight 1.80 Left onto woods rd (stay on trail to avoid 1.0 Cross under power lines to the left. ahead up slight incline, bear left 0.08 mi. to adjacent gun club). 1.1 Right at woods road fork. trail intersection. Turn right to start of stone 1.5 Left to road. and earthern former dike (not suitable for E N42 37.239 W71 05.014 1.7 Right onto Sharpner's Pond Rd. for 0.2 mile. bicycles), cross small bridge, and take left 2.65 Cross Middleton Rd (picnic pavilion about 1.9 Right onto driveway for Bud Cyr Recycling onto trail leading to long bog 100 yds to the right; P=25) Follow blazes Center and Sharpners Pond Athletic Fields bridge/boardwalk. thru tricky spot. 2.0 Enter the recycling/athletic field area. Turn 2.95 Berry Pond Rd (paved but closed to traffic; This Mary French Reservation area offers left into the parking lot for the athletic fields; public beach, seasonal restrooms, parking lot dramatic views of wildlife. Boardwalk crosses continue to walk through the parking lot 0.25 mile along rd on right). Continue Skug River twice and offers dramatic views of (athletic fields on your right) towards the straight across then thru several minor swamp and birds. woods. There is a large boulder at the end of intersections. the parking lot with a blaze on it. Enter the Note: This area is sometimes flooded because of 3.16 Right; pass thru two 19 th century granite woods, take an immediate left onto the trail. beaver activity. If this section is temporarily quarries. Cross small woods rd then Follow the trail through the woods, exiting at closed, signs will be posted to guide people downhill to footbridge. Continue to Jenkins another parking area. around the flooding and back to the trail. Rd. 2.1 Cross the parking area, diagonally to the left, At end of boardwalk follow trail to Korinthian and re-enter the woods for just a few yards, F N42 37.112 W71 05.603 Way (parking on street). exiting on Berry St; turn left towards Rte 114. 3.57 Cross Jenkins Rd. Parking available at pull- 5.23 Left on Korinthian Way to Grey Rd. 2.5 Cross Route 114. out (P=2-3) on east side of Jenkins Rd about 5.40 Right on Grey Rd. 75 yds south of trail crossing. Follow new tr 5.45 Left onto narrow trail thru Conservation Jct Rte 114/Harold Parker Rd (No. Andover) to Map 3 April 2015 2 Commission woodlands. MAP 3 - Boxford, No. Andover, Andover - 5.90 Left on Tucker Rd for short distance.