Join in the Newton Conservators Walk Series for a walk at Webster Woods. Webster Conservation Area is a jewel of open space in Newton. There are over five miles of well worn paths through this urban forest.
This area was once an open field used for raising sheep and farming. (You can still find the remnants of stone walls.) You and your children can enjoy both the acres of woodland and rock formations of many types – including caves and Cake Rock (a formation of rock over 15 feet high used for practicing rock climbing). You can also visit Bare Pond, a vernal pond which in the spring has tadpoles and salamanders, but is now dry.
In 1862, the Atlantic Monthly published an essay entitled “Walking” written by H.D. Thoreau. The first sentences of this essay could be used as an introduction to this walk. “I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil –to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society… I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of walking, that is, of taking walks – who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering”. Join in practicing Thoreau’s art of such sauntering.
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Park and meet at the end of Warren Street. (Warren Street is off Glen Ave. in Newton Centre. Glen Ave. is off Beacon St.) Trip Leader: Octo Barnett, 617-969-6988
