US-MA-Bumble+Bee+Park


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Middlesex County
=Bumble Bee Park= Littleton, Massachusetts 01460 Bumble Bee Park webpage Bumble Bee Park map

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Bumble Bee Park
Coordinates: 42.5286662, -71.4911163 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Bumble Bee Park
Many residents of Littleton and surrounding towns are familiar with the small attractive hill at the corner of Harwood Avenue and Foster Street. Generations of children have gone sledding there in the winter-and still do. It is not well known that the hill is only a small part of the 15.5-acre town-owned conservation land, acquired 38 years ago.

There is a newly renovated loop trail that passes through a variety of interesting features beside and behind the hill. The smooth, wide trail is well identified by red markers. The trail is about a 15- to 20-minute leisurely walk. Some of the interesting features to be seen in a relatively small area include Wild Thyme growing at the base of the hill, ducks in a small pond, very old drainage ditches in the pond vicinity, a very old stone slab culvert, deer trails, numerous birds, a fine variety of trees and shrubs, beautiful flowering dogwood trees in the spring, a bedrock cliff and a red maple marsh.

Parking is easy on the other side of Harwood Avenue, opposite the gate entrance where there is a parking lot specifically for Bumblebee Park on the side of Bumblebee Lane. The meadow opposite the parking area is a 10-acre grass and woodland area owned by the Littleton Conservation Trust. Once you cross Harwood Avenue (use the crosswalk), enter around the gate and follow the grass path along the base of the hill until you see red markers on the trees where the trail begins. A short, unmarked spur trail goes to the pond. The main trail ends at the top of the hill overlooking the streets and parking lot. From Bumble Bee Park webpage

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