Let’s Wonder around Great Brook hiking along the Trail through Time trail. As we roam around we will checkout the various historic remnants left behind and read various kiosks that explain the area. I’ll possibly extend our route slightly to other nearby trails.

*This is a long video of a virtual tour of the trail*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_34XzjGvi_U

**Note** : *I’ve never hike this area so it’s another new area for me.*

**Parking** : *I’m gonna move the meetup location to Nara Park. This will let me allow more people to attend. Closer to date I may update location if numbers drop back down. From Nara Park we can either walk .6 miles to a trail head or drive to one of the lots. I’ll coordinate all of this closer to date.*

**What is the Trail Through Time?**
https://trails.actonma.gov/trail-through-time/

**The Trail Through Time (TTT)** is a 2-mile bi-cultural heritage trail. Forming a loop around one mile of the Nashoba Brook, the **TTT** passes through or accesses twelve sites where stone remains of structures from three periods of the land’s history still endure.

Walking in either direction around the loop, the visitor may be surprised by pre-historic, colonial, and industrial era stone ruins, all within a localized area.

While winding through diverse landscapes, the Trail crosses the brook twice on rustic footbridges. The walking is easy along most of the Trail as it meanders beside busy wetlands, through shady woodlands, and picks its way over a rocky section of an ancient Indian trail.

https://www.trails.acton-ma.gov/trail-through-time/ttt-map-as-of-30-aug-13/

**Location**
The Trail Through Time lies mostly within the bounds of this Nashoba Brook Conservation Land. A Kiosk stands at the main entrance for the TTT, although two additional entrances, one with parking at Davis Road, and the other from Milldam Road in the Northbriar sub-division, also provide access.

Chosen as the Hub for the Trail Through Time, this location preserves remains of both the Thomas Wheeler, Jr., farmstead and cattle pens, and his 1730s grist and saw mills. Building these mills seems to have been the purpose for this North Acton settlement, originally known as Concord Village, that arose here.

**Parking** ; parking at 13 Wheeler Lane Acton, MA may be limited; if some can carpool together that could help. If there is a strong interest in this event, we could park/gather at NARA Park and either walk or drive over together.

*I’m currently working Pam (a member of our group who’s familiar with the area) to determine best place to Park.*

**Bike After the hike**: Depending on interest and weather, some of us could bike the Bruce Freeman after.

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