Perkins Meadow Lark Traditional Geocache

This 1.2 quart Lock & Lock container is hidden beside two meadows along the Perkins Conservation Area's Marshview Trail in the Town of Merrimac, MA.

Surrounded by private farmland, the Perkins Conservation Area is a 110-acre parcel of meadows and mixed woodlands along the north slope of Brush Hill with a bottom land tributary marsh feeding Back River of the Lake Attitash watershed. It is managed by the Conservation Commission of the Town of Merrimac, MA and has been recently added to the Essex County Greenbelt Association Protected Properties.

Access to the cache is along the area's Marshview Trail, with trail head parking on the shoulder of Highland Road near the intersection of Battis Road. The trail starts as a wet farm lane that abruptly turns east onto a windbreak hedge row between the area's meadows near the hide. There is a wide open easy way and also an interesting alternative, but difficult route, to the cache from the turning point.

The trail continues on beyond the hide as a winding narrow path following the contours of a hillside woods just above the marsh. The trail meets at the Jay McLaren Memorial Trail on the eastern border of the area. The Open Space Committee of the Town of Merrimac provides a pamphlet with info and trail maps for their Perkins and McLaren Conservation Areas.

Eastern Meadowlarks
by John Audobon


Meadow at Giverny
by Claude Monet