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Help Our Trails Day – 5/17/25

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3rd Annual

Help Our Trails (HOT) Day

Saturday, May 17, 9 am – 12 pm

For the 3rd consecutive year, the Walpole Trail Committee is inviting the public to help us prepare our town’s trails for the upcoming hiking season.  This year’s Help Our Trails (HOT) Day will take place on May 17, 2025, from 9 am to 12 pm.  Due to the chilly weather and slow vegetation growth so far this spring, we have postponed HOT Day by two weeks from the date announced in the April Clarion.

Volunteers will meet at the Walpole Town Hall, divide into small teams, and go out to work on trail maintenance projects at designated locations around Walpole.  HOT Day trail work will include clearing fallen branches, trimming vegetation, maintaining drainage, picking up litter, and making selected repairs and improvements on trails at Mill Pond Sanctuary, Fanny Mason Forest, the Cheshire Rail Trail, and elsewhere in Walpole.  

Please dress for trail work and bring your own water, work gloves, and hand tools (clippers, loppers, hand saws, etc.) if you have them.  Do not bring chain saws or power tools.  Litter bags will be provided.  No dogs, please.

To sign up or to get more information, please email walpoletrailhelpers@gmail.com.  Advance sign-up is strongly recommended.

This is a great chance for Walpole trail users to help our trails while having fun together. Please join us for the 3rd Annual HOT Day, Saturday, May 17th, from 9 am to noon.  Rain date is Sunday, May 18th.  

Wendy Grossman

Walpole Trail Committee

Walpole Trail Challenge Winners

Uncategorized 04/05/2025 Leave a comment
Trail challenge winners: Cindy Stewart won a backpack; Becky Pearson won a stove; Kara Dexter won a windscreen. And, you all won time on our beautiful trails! Keep your eyes peeled for our upcoming summer challenge that starts at the end of mud season.

Clarification: Walpole Trail Challenge Deadline Today – 4/1/25

Uncategorized 04/01/2025 Leave a comment

HEADS-UP, HIKERS!

DATE CLARIFICATION

Send log sheets anytime, on April 1st,

to France Menk’s studio email.
iam@france-menk.com

April 4th

First, second, and third place winners will be notified
of their hiking related prizes,
and results will be posted in the Walpolean,
and our WCC website.

walpoleoutdoors.org

Walpole Trail Challenge Deadline – 4/4/25

Uncategorized 03/30/2025 Leave a comment

From France Menk:

WALPOLE TRAIL CHALLENGE DEADLINE  

Log sheets are due by midnight, April 1st. The winners will be  announced in the Walpolean, on April 4th, and on our WCC website,  

walpoleoutdoors.org

First, second, and third place winners will receive hiking-related prizes.

Please send your logs to France Menk at her studio email. 

iam@france-menk.com

Correction: Walpole Trail Challenge

Uncategorized 01/25/2025 Leave a comment

Updated to clarify that only trails and class 6 roads located within the town of Walpole count toward the challenge.

Walpole Trail Committee Winter Trail Challenge

EVENTS 01/24/2025 Leave a comment

Final Reminder: Happy Trails Event – 12/11/24

CONSERVATION COMMISSION, EVENTS 12/09/2024 Leave a comment

H A P P Y    T R A I L S !

Wednesday, 12/11/24, at 7 pm

Walpole Town Hall

Do you enjoy the outdoors? Are you interested in trails? If so, please join the Walpole Trail Committee for a fun and informative evening featuring the trails of Walpole and the volunteers who maintain them.  The public is invited to come to Town Hall on Wednesday, December 11, at 7 pm for a presentation followed by refreshments and mingling.  All ages welcome.

— Learn about Walpole’s Trails

>Scenic photo tour

>Trail maps

>Winter Trail Challenge

— See the impact of trail work volunteers

>Trail improvement photos

>Rail trail upgrade story

>Volunteer sign-up

— Party with Trail Committee members

>Refreshments & conversation

>Questions & suggestions 

>Free raffle with great prizes

Questions?  Contact Wendy Grossman, Walpole Trail Committee Chair, at walpoletrailhelpers@gmail.com.

Reminder: Happy Trails Event – 12/11/24

CONSERVATION COMMISSION, EVENTS 12/03/2024 Leave a comment

H A P P Y    T R A I L S !

Wednesday, 12/11/24, at 7 pm

Walpole Town Hall

Do you enjoy the outdoors? Are you interested in trails? If so, please join the Walpole Trail Committee for a fun and informative evening featuring the trails of Walpole and the volunteers who maintain them.  The public is invited to come to Town Hall on Wednesday, December 11, at 7 pm for a presentation followed by refreshments and mingling.  All ages welcome.

— Learn about Walpole’s Trails

>Scenic photo tour

>Trail maps

— See the impact of trail work volunteers

>Trail improvement photos

>Rail trail upgrade story

— Party with Trail Committee members

>Refreshments & conversation

>Questions & suggestions 

Questions?  Contact Wendy Grossman, Walpole Trail Committee Chair, at walpoletrailhelpers@gmail.com.

Walpole Trail Committee’s Happy Trails Event – 12/11/24

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H A P P Y    T R A I L S !

Wednesday, 12/11/24, at 7 pm

Walpole Town Hall

Do you enjoy the outdoors? Are you interested in trails? If so, please join the Walpole Trail Committee for a fun and informative evening featuring the trails of Walpole and the volunteers who maintain them. The public is invited to come to Town Hall on Wednesday, December 11, at 7 pm for a presentation followed by refreshments and mingling. All ages welcome.

— Learn about Walpole’s Trails

>Scenic photo tour

— See the impact of trail work volunteers

>Trail improvement photos

— Party with Trail Committee members

>Refreshments & conversation

Questions? Contact Wendy Grossman, Walpole Trail Committee Chair, at walpoletrailhelpers@gmail.com

Rail Trail Work Event – 11/23/24

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FALL RAIL TRAIL MAINTENANCE EVENT

Saturday, 11/23/24, 9 am – 12 pm

Volunteer trail workers wanted! 

The Walpole Trail Committee is holding a fall trail work event on the Cheshire Rail Trail at 9 am on Saturday, November 23.  Our focus will be on preventive maintenance for the drainage ditches and culverts that were restored during the 2023 rail trail improvement project.  We need volunteers for digging, raking and similar tasks to ensure that water flows smoothly through the drainage system and the trail remains dry.

We can also use volunteers to cut back vegetation along certain parts of the rail trail.  If you want to do this type of work, please say so when you sign up.

Please sign up for this rail trail work event no later than November 20 so that we can allocate the available volunteer workers to priority projects.  We will send out details about where to meet, what tools to bring and what projects will be tackled shortly before the November 23 event.

Let’s keep the rail trail in good shape so Walpole residents and visitors can continue to enjoy it. Please join us at the Walpole Trail Committee’s Fall Rail Trail Maintenance Event on Saturday, November 23!

To sign up or to get more information, please send an email to Wendy Grossman at walpoletrailhelpers@gmail.com.  Advance sign-up is required.