In the summertime you’ll be lucky to find a parking spot at this popular park in the eastern part of Massachusetts. You might recognize Hopkinton from the town’s distinction as
You can’t go too far down the road in New England before running into a cranberry bog. Cranberries love the cool weather and grow on ground that might not support
At just six acres, this might qualify as the smallest POTA reference I’ve activated. I had great expectations going in – this is a small park on the site of
You don’t so much summit Mt. Tom as notice that you’ve been walking on flat ground for a while. It tops out at just 400-something feet, and the views are
I’m slowly learning that Apple Maps does not really show you the way to POTA happiness. On some cases it can barely show you the way to the parking lot.
When you ask people in Boston about the Blue Hills, many will tell you that they were built up during the expansion of the young city as the harbor was
Snake Den, named for a sinuous natural rock feature, is one of Rhode Island’s most interesting trails for folks who are interested in geology. Especially in the northern part of
I seem to be spending a lot of time in swamps lately. It’s actually not a bad time here in New England to be thinking about swamps – the summer
Autumn 2024 has been a great time to explore new POTA sites. The weather has been unseasonably mild, with temperatures reaching into the high 60s many days, and plenty of
The father and son had bagged one pheasant, and the young boy was excited to show it to me, a beautiful male. It was a reminder that WMAs are set