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EspañolWAPACK TRAIL
'The Wapack Trail' is one of the oldest public, interstate hiking trails in the United States. Opened in 1923, it runs north-south for 21 miles, between Mount Watatic in Ashburnham, Massachusetts and North Pack Monadnock mountain in Greenfield, New Hampshire. It is designed for day use by hikers, with no camping facilities.
The trail passes through Ashby, Massachusetts and the New Hampshire towns of New Ipswich, Temple, Sharon and Peterborough. It also goes over the former Temple Mountain Ski Area, and through Miller State Park and the Wapack National Wildlife Refuge, as well as numerous privately owned parcels of land.
The trail is overseen by a non-profit group called Friends of the Wapack. Aside from upgrading and maintaining the trail, the group is trying to have the entire length preserved from development.
The southern part of the Wapack Trail overlaps with the northern part of the Massachusetts Midstate Trail.
The trail was born in a conversation in the summer of 1922 at the Shattuck Inn in Jaffrey, New Hampshire between Allen Chamberlain, who later became president of the Appalachian Mountain Club, and Jaffrey farmer Albert Annett while overlooking the Wapack range, then known as the Boundary Mountains. The two talked about the possibility of a skyline trail along the ridge of the Boundary Mountains from Mt. Watatic to North Pack Monadnock. Later, Albert brought the idea to fellow farmers Frank Robbins and Marion Buck of Rindge, New Hampshire. The three started cutting the trail near the end of the summer using hand tools. The trail was opened in 1923. Buck named it by joining the ''Wa'' from Mt. Watatic and ''Pack'' from North Pack Monadnock, and soon the Boundary Mountains became known as the Wapack Range.
★ Friends of the Wapack site
★ Wapack Trail Running Race
The trail passes through Ashby, Massachusetts and the New Hampshire towns of New Ipswich, Temple, Sharon and Peterborough. It also goes over the former Temple Mountain Ski Area, and through Miller State Park and the Wapack National Wildlife Refuge, as well as numerous privately owned parcels of land.
The trail is overseen by a non-profit group called Friends of the Wapack. Aside from upgrading and maintaining the trail, the group is trying to have the entire length preserved from development.
The southern part of the Wapack Trail overlaps with the northern part of the Massachusetts Midstate Trail.
Friends of the Wapack patch
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History
The trail was born in a conversation in the summer of 1922 at the Shattuck Inn in Jaffrey, New Hampshire between Allen Chamberlain, who later became president of the Appalachian Mountain Club, and Jaffrey farmer Albert Annett while overlooking the Wapack range, then known as the Boundary Mountains. The two talked about the possibility of a skyline trail along the ridge of the Boundary Mountains from Mt. Watatic to North Pack Monadnock. Later, Albert brought the idea to fellow farmers Frank Robbins and Marion Buck of Rindge, New Hampshire. The three started cutting the trail near the end of the summer using hand tools. The trail was opened in 1923. Buck named it by joining the ''Wa'' from Mt. Watatic and ''Pack'' from North Pack Monadnock, and soon the Boundary Mountains became known as the Wapack Range.
External links
★ Friends of the Wapack site
★ Wapack Trail Running Race
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