This is the sixth of ten in the Boxborough-Centric geocache series. A complete list of the BC series caches can be found here.
This is a traditional geocache located on the Half Moon Meadow conservation land in Boxborough. The container is a small 3” x 6” cylinder with a log and a requisite clue for the tenth cache in the series, the BC#10 Boxborough Centroid GC2DDCR.
A trail map for Half Moon Meadow can be downloaded from the Town's website here. (I have made a KMZ file of all the Boxborough trail guides for loading on your GPSr, if you want it.) I have provided a WP for the southern trailhead on Reed Farm Road. You can easily park at the side of the road there.
The cache is about 140’ off the red trail and will require an easy bushwhack. In rainy weather the ground will likely be wet as this is at the edge of serious wetlands. The cache will be friendly in light snow conditions.
This hiking trail was named after lifelong Boxborough resident, Helen Volkmann, who was a dedicated member of the Conservation Commission and very instrumental in much of the land conservation efforts in town. This was her favorite place to spend time in the woods. This geocache is dedicated to her memory.
The Boxborough-Centric series is a collection of nine individual caches, each with a clue to the tenth. All are located in Boxborough, Mass. They will take you to some of the more interesting places in the town. Several of these caches will rely on information that can be found in a book called Boxborough: Portrait of a Town, published by a group of Town residents in 1983. A special copy of this book, reserved just for this cache series, can be found in Boxborough's Sargent Memorial Library. The librarians will show you where it is. Please do not mark it up. Bring a pen and paper with which to make notes because you cannot take this copy out. Or, for a cost, you may make copies of a few pages at a time in the library if you prefer. The library’s hours can be found on its website here. You need to find ALL the first nine caches with their respective clues to find BC#10 Boxborough Centroid GC2DDCR. You do not need to find them in order.
G-o-cashers was the First-To-Find on the BC#10 Boxborough Centroid geocache (he did it the hard way, without waiting for the full series to be published, which some others have now also done). He is making the copy of Boxborough: Portrait of a Town he won for the FTF prize in that cache available to anyone who wants to borrow it for this series by placing it in his The Other Boxborough Library (GC2GJ21) geocache.