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Carlisle, Massachusetts
Great Brook Farm State Park
A working dairy farm with more than twenty miles of trails running out from it, past stone walls, seventeenth-century cellar holes and ponds worth walking to. The dairy tour is free and runs at weekends.
✓ Played by hand with the kids at the original playtest.
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Three hundred years ago families built houses out here in the woods. The houses are long gone, but the holes where their cellars were are still in the ground, and you can walk right up to one. The cows on this farm get milked by a robot.
One of your three free places, or the Explorer Pass. What that costs
Before you go
- Time there
- Plan on about 2 hours at the park.
- Parking
- The lot is at 165 North Road, by the farm. $3 a car from April 1 to November 30, whatever your plates say; free the rest of the year.
- Underfoot
- More than twenty miles of trails through open fields and woodland.
- Bathrooms
- There are bathrooms.
- Food
- There is an ice cream stand by the dairy barn.
24 challenges written for this place
A game deals seven to fifteen of them, so no two visits are alike.
Every game includes this one
Meadow Pond
Make it to Meadow Pond.
A few of the others
Time Traveler
Find something you think is more than 100 years old and explain why.
Mystery Object
Find something strange. See if anybody can guess what it's for.
Stone Wall
Find a stone wall.
Farm Friend
Find a farm animal.
Trail Hunter
Find a trail marker, and work out which trail you're standing on.
Horsepower
Find a horse, or a hoofprint a horse left behind.
The rest are a surprise — that's the whole point.
Play this at Great Brook Farm State Park
Free. Works with no signal once you're there.