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The Trustees of Reservations trail marker on Ward Reservation in Massachusetts

Here's the trail marker of The Trustees of Reservations, the organization that owns Ward Reservation and around 100 other properties in Massachusetts. Working with similar agencies they are planning a "Bay Circuit Trail" to link reserves in a HUGE arc around Boston between Routes 128 and 495. Their great management of Ward Reservation includes a carefully plowed parking lot, a hilltop Solstice Ring, trail intersection signs with whole sentences, and a well-documented interpretive bog trail. Two things I would like to see improved are: opening access to the fire lookout tower (where the best view is currently forbidden) and standing the solstice stones upright (so they can be appreciated in winter).