Eco Tours

This afternoon’s project with my kids was a nature walk in Foxboro MA.  The greater Foxboro are is full of State and Town forest that offer all sorts of trails to walk, hike and bike on.  Most of these trails are not marked and for the most part, most people do not even know that they exist.  Today’s nature walk in New England started at the Foxborough Dog Park.

On the side on the right side of the dog park is an old wooden bridge that will lead you into a forest of pine and oak trees.  After a few hundred yards there are a bunch of old paved roads that don’t really lead anywhere.  I don’t care to research the history of the roads, the present day use as walking or biking trails is my only interest.

Since this nature walk was in a forest with many paths and roads, it was a good opportunity to show my kids how to mark our trails with rocks or branches so we could find our way back.  With frost at night time it is not the best time of year to teach kids how to get lost in the town forest.  This will be a perfect place to teach them how to use a compass next summer.

This is a picture of one of the roads in the forest that is paved but it doesn’t really lead anywhere.  The fall in New England is a great place for an Eco Tour in one of the many town and state forest.