Chuck Phillips, a former Open Space Chair who died in 2015, spearheaded the creation of the Wilbraham trail system. The Chuck Phillips Trail is a beautiful, wide, pineneedle-soft trail that crosses parts of the old Bay Path which was the main route that settlers took back in the colonial days to travel between Springfield and the coast of Massachusetts. All of this trail is wide and well defined. It is one of the most navigable trails in Wilbraham, and the vistas of the tree canopy here are breathtaking. The Chuck Phillips Trail meanders out from golf tee #14 for about 1.3 miles where it connects up with Spear Brook. At that point, there is a short, scenic trail along the brook. There are also some short spur trails off of the Chuck Phillips Trail that lead down to the Twelve Mile Brook