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Middlesex County
=Winter Pond= Winchester, Winchester, MA 01890 01890 Friends of Winter Pond website

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Winter Pond, Winchester
Coordinates: 42.4563309, -71.1517256 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Winter Pond
Winter Pond, located just north of Winchester center on either side of Woodside Road, is a charming recreational area. Seasonal activities include bird watching, canoeing, and kayaking, sailing, fishing, ice-skating and unusual opportunities for scenic and wildlife photography. The area is a wonderful natural habitat for wildlife.

Often referred to as Winchester’s hidden treasure, Winter Pond is a classic kettle pond, created in the Ice Age by retreating glaciers. Once much larger, it is about 17 acres in size and is considered a Great Pond of Massachusetts. The Town of Winchester is responsible for its maintenance. Winter Pond is very shallow, approximately 8 feet at its deepest, and has a shoreline of about 1.25 miles, most of which is lined with private residences. Public access to both parts of the pond, Big Winter to the west and Little Winter to the East, is on Woodside Road. Wildwood Cemetery borders the easternmost shore of Little Winter. Winter Pond’s only sources of water are rain and snow, ground water, and run-off storm water. There are no underground springs and no connections to nearby lakes or streams. Variations in the amounts of precipitation together with the increasingly dense development in the area has led to unnaturally rapid eutrophication of the pond. One of the primary goals of the Friends is to educate everyone in the watershed how to manage their own property maintenance without polluting the ponds, especially through the use of damaging phosphates common in fertilizer products.

No gasoline motors are allowed on Winter Pond (a Town Meeting vote) and there is no ice fishing (a Town Ordinance). From Friends of Winter Pond website

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