• Activities Prohibited
• ATV's/ORV's
• Facilities
• None
• Fees
• No fee
• Land Owner
• Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust
• Parking
• 8 cars
• Pets
• Pets OK
• Recreation Activities
• Hiking
• Rock climbing
• Season
• All Seasons
• Signage
• Trailhead sign
• Trails marked

Arthur Iversen Conservation Area

Gale Rd., Warwick, MA
(978) 248-2043

Trails, year-round moss garden, and seasonal waterfall highlight this diverse wildlife habitat area.

Description:

The conservation goal of the 500-acre Arthur Iversen Area is to allow natural forces to determine wildlife habitat, ecosystem diversity, and water quality. From the trailhead on Gale Road, a one-way trail to the East follows an historic cart road across Rum Brook to a right-of-way to Hastings Heights Road (please stay on the trail in this area). The blue-blazed trail to the West from Gale Road emerges from the forest and crosses Hodge Brook near a lovely abandoned beaver pond. It then returns to the woods where a spur leads to an overlook of a basin created in a boulder by a seasonal waterfall, Devil’s Washbowl, its gorge adorned year-round by a moss garden.

Directions:

From Warwick Center, go east 0.8 mi. on Athol Rd., turn right (south) on Gale Rd., and go approx. 1 mile, to sign on right.

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Contact:

Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust
1461 Old Keene Rd.
Athol, MA 01331

Phone: (978) 248-2043
Fax: (978) 248-2053
Email: landtrust@mountgrace.org
Web: www.mountgrace.org

 

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