Holy Cross Crew Team Volunteer Morning!

Today, Saturday, May 4th is the day the Holy Cross crew team and their coach will help out at the East Side Trail!  It is an annual tradition, and a morning that allows for much work to be done on the trails.  We will be clearing the trail, placing water bars near a slope off Plantation Street, and cleaning up the trails.

You are welcome to join us!
The crew will be there from 8:00 a.m. to noon!
Base of operations is the athletic field parking lot across from the Worcester Tech High School, but you will find teams of volunteers throughout the park.

Feel free to join in the work!

Updates Underfoot

Been awhile since any news on the trails has been posted so here's a bit of an update and itinerary. With winter behind us the yearly chores of maintaining the trails have come to the forefront. We ask that anyone walking the trails take a quick moment to pull aside a piece of deadfall or pick up a bit of litter as they pass through. Thanks, every little bit helps!

On Saturday May 4th the Holy Cross crew team will once again dedicate a morning of their time to do a thorough cleanup of the entire trail system. If any of the designated trail stewards are able to help us out during this event please comment here or contact GWLT directly. As for planned projects, we'd like to tackle some erosion prone areas like installing water bars on the East Side Trail leading downhill to Coal Mine Brook at Plantation Street and constructing a rustic stairway on the Millstone Trail just east of Skyline Drive.

But in the interim, get out and enjoy the trail system. Woodcocks are migrating through sounding their evening "beezp" call,  to be replaced in short time by the "peepers" emerging from the many wet areas and vernal pools abutting the trail system,