Willis Hole/Quarry Traditional Cache
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Main trails are wide and flat, Secondary trails are narrow and rocky to the cache site. The coordinates may be a little off due to heavy foilage from the trees.
The Wills Hole Conservation Area and the contiguous Town Forest, located in North Acton near NARA Park, have been combined into one conservation area that comprises 90 acres. . Covered with stands of red oak, white oak, red maple, and white pine, the Forest’s only unusual features are its outcrops of rock that seem to underlie much of the local region. Abutting properties contain former quarries. Captain Handley Road entrance, there are two major entrances to this combined consarea, one from Quarry Road, off Route 27, and the other from the Nagog Park Drive cul-de-sac, off Route 2A. The 1.9-mile main loop (yellow-blazed) trail is easily accessible from this cul-de-sac and provides a direct and interesting route to Wills Hole pond and quaking bog, an area characterized by unusual landforms and flora. The approach trail to the bog traverses the top of a glacial esker, a sand and gravel ridge deposited by the meltwater stream that flowed beneath a melting Ice Age glacier. The trail along this narrow, raised landform might be mistaken for an abandoned roadway or railroad bed, but its curved path signifies its glacial origin.
.Immediately to the west, is a 170-foot boardwalk, that leads to the edge of the open water of Wills Hole bog.
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