I love Mainstone farm, so Beautiful and picturesque. I'm happy this conservation area exists for…read moreall to enjoy. Please note that Mainstone Farm is privately owned. Portions of the land are not open to the public. Please stay on designated trails, shown on the map. Hamlen Woods and Mainstone Farm Loop is a great location for short hikes through a beautiful forest. The trails are marked with colored diamond-shaped signs, indicated by the corresponding colored lines on the map. The blue trail will lead you from the Hamlen Woods parking area, north to Reeves Hill Conservation Land, over a one-way route of approximately 1.75 miles. The red trail will take you on an approximately 4.5-mile circuit through all of the connected areas. Great for kids & dogs! Very small parking area. Bring bug spray and clean up after yourself!

Great conservation area in Wayland. It's actually 5 interconnected conservation area. Mainstone…read moreFarm. Hamlen Woods. Reeves Hill. Wayland Hills. and Turkey Hill. Some land owned by the Town of Wayland, other land owned by Sudbury Valley Trustees. 2 largish parking lots on Rice Road. If you combine the different plots, you can easily get in a 6-7 mile hike. Lots of dog walkers, who stuck to the areas closest to the Rice Road parking lots and the pond. Not as many people on the Turkey Hill Wayland Hills side.

It's a Trustees property. So parking is $6. Huge parking lot. Can easily accommodate 100 cars…read more Beware that many Trustees properties, including this one, allow hunting. Right now (October) it is Bow season. Lots of trail options, quite a few ponds, hills, and connects to Fork Factory Brook across the street. They have designated dog On Leash/Off Leash areas. Trails are well marked. But you need to carry a map. Unless you have memorized all the trail names. They do not have maps at the intersections.

Incredibly beautiful spot to take a hike! Had a beautiful pond, vista, another small ponds along…read morethe trail all coming out to be about 6 miles. You can go canoeing here and fishing during the summer. Great for families and friends.

Amazing walking and biking trail from Natick to Framingham and back. Truly, a hidden gem of the…read moreregion that's usually not very busy either so great to bring dogs to.

AN ABSOLUTELY MUST DO! 5 STARS! How would you like to picnic on the grounds of a Castle for FREE!…read moreThis is one of the Secret Hidden Gems of America that most people have never heard of or been to before. It's Time to jump into The TimeMobile & scour the Earth & take you to places from a different time that you won't believe still exist. We have set the dial to 1880's in the town of Wellesley MA. We have landed at this beautiful Castle that is in the middle of the center of Wellesley's business district. Well it looks like a castle but it's really Wellesley City Hall. I don't know about you but my city hall looks nothing like a Castle. LOL! Wellesley is a very affluent town & their city hall is a Castle. You can visit the park here for FREE & THE Parking is FREE as well. If they run out of spots there's metered parking on the perimeter & adjacent streets too. Near the front entrance there is a War Memorial dedicated to those who lost their lives in the Armed Services. The grounds of Hunnewell Park are filled with green grass, trees, a stream, a bridge & a pond. There's wildlife that resides here including white swans & geese. There are benches & picnic tables scattered throughout the property. What a picturesque & relaxing setting to Picnic or kick back & read. It feels like you are at a nature retreat rather than a park. It's great to take a photo here with the Castle & send it to your family & friends & say " Sorry I can't talk to you peasants now, I'm picnicking at a Castle". LOL! They will hate you forever until you tell them it's Free & you'll take them with you next time. The stone government building is a prime example of the Richardsonian Romanesque style of architecture along with a bit of French Chateau. It was built between 1881 & 1886 & designed by Shaw & Hunnewell. It was funded by & built on donated land by H. H. Hunnewell. The building is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There's also something special here for the medical community that they will really like. There are 2 Doctor memorial plaques placed on large stones. The first one is for DR W*T G MORTON who lived here. He gave the world Ether for Surgery. The second plaque is for DR. JOSEPH E. MURRAY who in 1954 performed the first successful Human Organ Transplant. He was also a 1990 Nobel Prize Winner & resided in the town. Since you are in the area be sure to check out the Babson Globe another Freebie. It's the 2nd largest rotating globe in the world. And you can get something great to eat right across the street @ Tutto Italiano. They serve great Meatball Subs & get a side of their Delicious Homemade red roasted peppers too. They also have authentic Italian red sauce to go. It used to be, you had to have Mega Bucks & be really Rich to have the Good Life, not anymore. The Game has changed. You've been Upgraded. Now You Can Live Like a King on a Limited Budget!

I spend a lot of time at Hunnewell Park. It is close to my home and although it used to offer a…read morelot more natural settings it has unfortunately become one giant athletic complex. Lights and sounds can be experienced almost every night now. We used to see and hear many more wild animals and experience it as a natural corridor. Alas, now it is only filled up with athletic equipment, stray plastic water bottles and other human trash.

Well, there isn't a mountain here. I went to the "summit". It was a total of 236' of elevation…read moregain. On a 2+ mile walk. And though they have signs directing you to a summit view, the view is of trees. Parking lot is tiny. Maybe holds 10 cars. Yet I probably saw 30 other people while I was out. Considering you hear lots of traffic noise the whole time, you actually feel like you are in the deep wilderness due to the surroundings.

While local lab owners treat this like an off-leash dog park, it is NOT OFF LEASH…read more Why? It is next to a HIGHWAY. You can hear the HIGHWAY the entire time you are walking. If your dog gets spooked, he could end up dead, killing people in the process. The sides that aren't highway are busy roads. Please leash your dog. It's a very busy place, and there are legit and safer off leash parks nearby (Dedham dog park, Rocky Woods in Medfield, Charles River Peninsula in Needham) that are better places to let your dog roam.

I was nearby so I decided to check it out I live an hour…read moreaway and had my dog with me It had a few trails one lead to this nice bridge To go down below there is a very long staircase

Stumbled across this park while needing to kill some time. It was more beautiful than expected!…read moreThere are lots of sights to see: bridges, waterfalls, buildings. Paths twist and turn, go up, down and around. It was very fun to explore. I spent about 45 minutes here. It was delightful!

There are 2 parts to Rocky Narrows. While I have hiked both back in the day, I have only recently…read morewalked the Rt. 27 part, so this review is for that. The walking path is off of a small parking lot set off of busy Rt. 27 (which makes for a scary left hand turn out of it). There are residents all along the side of the reservation, so as you walk down the trail, several signs mark the boundary between the private and public land. The trail map is clear and shows the junction numbers that are clearly marked along the path as well. The first stretch is full of roots, but once you get to the Y intersection, the path evens out and is not as treacherous. However, there are parts of the trails that are less maintained than others. I'm not really a fan of the numerous rules posted - only 4 cars can park (there is definitely room for more than this in the parking lot), you can only walk 2 dogs, you can't cross the railroad tracks to meet up with the other section of the trail. After having walked both sections of the trail, I did less than 2 miles, so it's not a strenuous or long walk. If you want more of a view and more hiking, check out the other half of the trail - parking lot off of Snow st.

An interesting place to visit although I couldn't really find the pond... it's lost. It was a…read moredecent hike and it looks like this was a dump site at one point but they cleaned it up and it was nice cuz I had found some serene areas where you can picnic. Of course the trails were a bit narrow and under the covid 19 circumstances, can't help but get a little bit uncomfortable when you have people coming from the opposite direction... At least had my face covering.

Page on Newton Conservators website with more info is now at…read morehttps://newtonconservators.org/property/lost-pond/