Camp Wing Conservation – Duxbury, MA
After my over 30 years of living (mostly) in and around the area April weather never ceases to amaze me. Last week we were in the 70s, this Friday calls for SNOW in some areas, and today started out in the 40s and cloudy and now we have upper 50s and sunny.
This morning after dropping off a few busy books (see my previous post about these books or you can visit my now live Etsy store!!: HumarockMaMom) we headed over to Duxbury to a trail I’ve seen a few times I was driving through the area, Camp Wing Conservation. Camp Wing itself is a Camp in Duxbury that serves over 1,000 youths from the greater Boston area and is currently enrolling for their 2021 Summer Camp, take a look at their website if you’re interested!
Camp Wing Conservation is an over 450 acre area with a few loops trails as well as some other interesting things we found along our way! The parking lot on Franklin Street is a little small, but since it wasn’t very nice out we were the only ones there 🙂 Make sure you take a GPS with you on this hike, or pull up the AllTrails app and record your footsteps because although there are plenty of trail markers, there isn’t an interactive map for you to follow and it can get a bit confusing.
Once you walk through the gate you’ll immediately be met with a fork in the path, to the left is a yellow marked trail with the sign “John Sherman Path” this loop trail goes around the whole property and meets up with the intersecting blue and red marked trails. We ended up staying straight at this fork because it was wider and for anyone living in the area you know all to well April is prime tick season (BLAH) and those little buggers are everywhere.
After following over a bridge and under a few fallen down trees we were met with another fork, this time we continued to the right following along the blue markers until we passed by a few houses and met back up with the John Sherman Path again. Here, we decided to try it out and found a lot of root, some swampiness and a few boards to cross over some mud. Eventually, we met back up with the more wide open red trail and headed to the right which is when we located the observation deck where we sat for a minute and had a snack. The trail continues up past the observation area to a zip line to cross over a brook, there isn’t a bridge here and there was no way we were making it over any other way so we had to turn around. But, for those of you that don’t always have two toddlers attached to you it looked pretty cool! I’m not sure how much further the path would have continued, but you are walking towards RT. 3 so I imagine you’d be turning around pretty quickly.
Once we turned around and headed back past the observation area we were met with another fork – head to the left on the John Sherman path and you’ll be going the same way we came. If you decide to go to the right you’ll be looping all the way around back to the original John Sherman sign you see when you first enter the trail near the parking lot We decided to go straight here and it took us right up through the area back to where I originally dropped the pin for our GPS tracker.
Overall, this trail was pretty neat, I did like that the main area is open, it makes it easy to be able to walk side by side with my son while he holds my hand on one side and a “stick that touches the ground” in another. Our bridge rating definitely isn’t our highest, there’s only a few that we saw, but the observation deck with the bench and the zip line I think made up for it. I wouldn’t try a stroller on here, even though the main red marked trail is open and mostly flat you’ll still run into some rocks and roots so a carrier is going to be the way to go!
