{"id":233,"date":"2015-12-16T15:06:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T15:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.170.61.20\/wordpress\/?page_id=233"},"modified":"2015-12-16T15:06:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T15:06:08","slug":"bulette","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/trails.acton-ma.gov\/?page_id=233","title":{"rendered":"Bulette \/ Town Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trails.acton-ma.gov\/map\/?zoom=15.97&amp;lng=-71.459929&amp;lat=42.495629&amp;m=[]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2437 \" src=\"https:\/\/trails.acton-ma.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-22-190923-1-300x232.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/mBulette.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Map of Bulette (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Location: \u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parallel to northeast side of Route 2, off Newtown Road, near Littleton boundary<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Loop trail:<\/b> \u00a00.7 mile<\/p>\n<p><b>Acreage:<\/b> \u00a047<\/p>\n<p><b>Terrain\/Trail Conditions: \u00a0<\/b>Gently hilly terrain; mostly dry walking conditions, except on a short section along\u00a0the gas line easement that parallels Route 2.<\/p>\n<p><b>Entrance:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Bulette Road (off Newtown Road).\u00a0Look for signage and entrance gate on the left\u00a0approx. 200 ft. from the end of Bulette Road.<\/span>\u00a0<strong>P<\/strong>arking at\/near end of road (please be careful not to block private drives). <strong>K<\/strong>iosk at <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">end of access trail, \u00a0one quarter mile from entrance gate.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<hr \/>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bulette\/Town Forest Conservation Land includes 22 acres of Town Forest (the smaller of two such tracts in Acton)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The remainder of the acreage is wetlands, and, except for a glacial esker along which a secondary trail allows viewing of the marsh, this portion is unsuitable for trails. Most of the Town Forest acreage is upland woods, predominantly oak and white pine enhanced by a scattering of beech trees, and it is this area that the trail system covers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trail system\u2019s moderately long red access trail leads to a yellow loop trail, which is bisected by one blue secondary trail and an unblazed portion of fire road. The red<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">access trail is a fire road passing<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">between wetlands on the east and, on the west, large slabs of cut rock and boulders remaining from the construction of Route 2. Shortly after taking a sharp easterly turn, this access trail crosses a tiny tributary of the Grassy Pond Brook and then passes through a stone wall, where it intersects the yellow loop trail. The information kiosk is located at this intersection. The trail system also includes a second blue trail, outside the main loop trail, that follows the top of an\u00a0esker that separates the upland from the marshy area in the property\u2019s southeastern portion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the kiosk, a hiker\u00a0can continue\u00a0eastwardly along the yellow\u00a0loop trail, a portion of which serves as a fire road.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alternatively from the kiosk, a hiker\u00a0can head\u00a0southeast onto the loop trail to follow\u00a0a narrow footpath that winds through attractive upland forest conspicuously dotted with large boulders and rocky outcrops present throughout the upland area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The northerly portion of the loop trail continues\u00a0eastwardly to a junction where the\u00a0fire road\u00a0turns south and a\u00a0blue crossover trail begins, going southeasterly. At this junction the yellow loop trail heads\u00a0due east onto a narrower forest path, soon turning southeasterly and going downhill into a graceful wooded basin with lovely ferns throughout. The fire road south of the junction is represented on the map as an unblazed dotted track.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Within the loop, and paralleling the fire road, the seemingly redundant blue crossover trail allows a hiker to traverse the rim of a small escarpment that overlooks the lower basin through which the loop trail passes. Lovely views, as well as interesting rock outcrops, may be seen all along this trail. Some of the rock is geologically very ancient.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the most easterly point in the basin, where the loop trail turns west, the blue esker trail leads off to the east and then south. It passes along the top of the esker until it smoothes out into the edge of the southern wetlands. After crossing a damp area, the trail turns northwest, crosses the Grassy Pond Brook tributary stream and, following a gas line easement that parallels Route 2, eventually joins the access trail. Though the distances along most of these trails are short, the views and interesting terrain make all trails well worth the walk. No other parcel among the Acton conservation lands has rock formations<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">so attractively situated<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">within lovely woodland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/mBulette.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Map of Bulette (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/map\/?goto=Bulette+-+Town+Forest\">Bulette Map (full screen online map)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Map of Bulette (PDF) Location: \u00a0Parallel to northeast side of Route 2, off Newtown Road, near Littleton boundary Loop trail: \u00a00.7 mile Acreage: \u00a047 Terrain\/Trail Conditions: \u00a0Gently hilly terrain; mostly dry walking conditions, except on a short section along\u00a0the gas line easement that parallels Route 2. Entrance: From Bulette Road (off Newtown Road).\u00a0Look for signage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/trails.acton-ma.gov\/?page_id=233\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bulette \/ Town Forest<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-233","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trails.acton-ma.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trails.acton-ma.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trails.acton-ma.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trails.acton-ma.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trails.acton-ma.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trails.acton-ma.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}