{"id":238,"date":"2015-12-16T16:09:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T16:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.170.61.20\/wordpress\/?page_id=238"},"modified":"2015-12-16T16:09:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T16:09:56","slug":"bay-circuit-trail","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/trails.acton-ma.gov\/?page_id=238","title":{"rendered":"Bay Circuit Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BClogo.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-239\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-239\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BClogo.gif\" alt=\"BClogo\" width=\"160\" height=\"171\"><\/a>First proposed in 1929 as an outer &#8217;emerald necklace,&#8217; linking parks, open spaces and waterways from Plum Island to Kingston Bay, the Bay Circuit idea &#8211; a precursor of today&#8217;s national greenways movement &#8211; continues to take shape.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BCminimap.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-240\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-240\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BCminimap.gif\" alt=\"BCminimap\" width=\"162\" height=\"218\"><\/a>Focused on a 200 mile corridor of 50 cities and towns, the Bay Circuit Trail connects the &#8220;jewels&#8221; of the &#8220;emerald necklace.&#8221; Community by community, the dream of connecting more than 79 areas of protected land in a greenway around Boston is now becoming a reality.&nbsp; Find out more about the Bay Circuit Trail at their website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baycircuit.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Circuit Trail<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Acton, the trail entering from Concord goes through our Stoneymeade,&nbsp; Spring Hill, and Nashoba Brook Conservation Lands&nbsp; and exits to Carlisle.&nbsp; The trail is marked with white blazes and BCT markers at trail junctions.&nbsp; (The standard Acton red, yellow, and blue blazes are at the junctions as well as along the trail in conservation areas.)&nbsp; In addition, two trails into the Camp Acton Conservation Land provide access to campsites available to the overnight hiker.<\/p>\n<p>Camp Acton Camping permits need to be obtained in advance from Town Hall. The forms can be downloaded <a href=\"\/index.php\/camping-permit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First proposed in 1929 as an outer &#8217;emerald necklace,&#8217; linking parks, open spaces and waterways from Plum Island to Kingston Bay, the Bay Circuit idea &#8211; a precursor of today&#8217;s national greenways movement &#8211; continues to take shape. Focused on a 200 mile corridor of 50 cities and towns, the Bay Circuit Trail connects the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/trails.acton-ma.gov\/?page_id=238\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bay Circuit Trail<\/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-238","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trails.acton-ma.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238","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=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trails.acton-ma.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trails.acton-ma.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}