39 places
Featured locations
Real places with challenges written for what's actually there, from the park's own maps and records.
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Chelmsford, Massachusetts
Russell Mill Pond & Town Forest
A hundred and thirty acres of oak and pine with three thousand feet of shoreline on Russell Mill Pond, and a trail network the mountain bikers made their reputation on.
Ages 3–12
Salem, Massachusetts
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
A half-mile stone wharf running out into the harbor with a small lighthouse at the end, and a street of merchant houses behind it from when this was one of the richest ports in America.
Ages 3–12
Salem, Massachusetts
Salem Willows
Twenty-five acres of coastline at the top of Salem Neck, a park since 1888, long and narrow and lined the whole way with the willow trees it is named for.
Ages 3–12
Eastham, Massachusetts
Salt Pond & Nauset Marsh
A round pond joined to the sea by a narrow neck, a marsh full of birds behind it, and a loop that runs along the edge of both before turning back through a forest that is still growing itself back.
Ages 4–12
Saugus, Massachusetts
Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site
A whole seventeenth-century ironworks rebuilt on the river — waterwheels, a blast furnace, a forge, and bellows eighteen feet long that blew the air into it.
Ages 3–12
Chelmsford, Massachusetts
Thanksgiving Ground Forest
Forty-five acres of ledge and enormous boulders above the west bank of Russell Mill Pond, named for the fox hunt the men of the town held here every Thanksgiving Day.
Ages 3–12
Lincoln, Massachusetts
The Battle Road
Five miles of the road the Revolution started on, running from Meriam's Corner out to Lexington, with the stone walls the militia fired from behind still alongside it and the tavern the British column marched past twice in one day.
Ages 4–12
Carlisle, Massachusetts
The Greenough Land
Two hundred and forty acres of upland and wetland woods around a twenty-one-acre pond that averages barely two feet deep, with fields, rock outcrops and a brook running through the middle of it.
Ages 3–12
Concord, Massachusetts
The North Bridge
A wooden bridge over the Concord River where farmers were first ordered to fire on British soldiers, with a bronze minute man on one bank and a granite obelisk on the other — one marking where the militia stood, the other where the British did.
Ages 3–12
Eastham, Massachusetts
The Three Sisters
Three lighthouses standing in a clearing in the woods, half a mile from the sea they were built for. Sailors called them the Three Sisters because from out on the water they looked like women in white dresses wearing black hats.
Ages 4–12
Carlisle, Massachusetts
The Towle Land
A hundred and twelve acres of rolling field and rocky outcrop with woods and streams behind it, a small pond made by a dam, and bobolinks nesting in the open grass every spring.
Ages 3–12
Princeton, Massachusetts
Wachusett Meadow
Twelve hundred acres of old farmstead below the mountain — barns still in use, sheep still grazing the pastures, and twelve miles of trail running out through woodland, wetland and meadow.
Ages 3–12
Princeton, Massachusetts
Wachusett Mountain State Reservation
A 2,006-foot peak you can drive to the top of, with a view the whole way round and seventeen miles of trails through forest and meadow below it.
Ages 3–12
Concord, Massachusetts
Walden Pond
A glacier-made pond a hundred feet deep, a path all the way round it, and the spot where Thoreau built a one-room house.
Ages 4–12
Salem, Massachusetts
Winter Island
A peninsula at the mouth of Salem Harbour with a lighthouse on the end of it, the earthworks of a fort begun in 1643, two beaches and a path running the length of the west side above Cat Cove.
Ages 3–12