Willard Brook State Forest – West Townsend, Massachusetts

The Willard Brook State Forest is headquartered in West Townsend, Massachusetts. The state forest comprises some 2,597 acres of woodland. Activities in the park include camping and such day use options as swimming, picnicking, fishing, hiking and cross country skiing. In addition to the two campgrounds, several trailheads and scenic pullouts there are three main day use ares of the park. Pearl Hill State Park is a heavily wooded 1000 acre tract with swimming, fishing and hiking opportunities. The willard brook is dammed creating Willard Brook Pond.

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Trap Falls is a nice little cascade a short distance off the road.

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Damon Pond is another reservoir with ample swimming, hiking and fishing available.

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Bicentennial Chair – Gardner, Massachusetts

Gardner, Massachusetts is know locally as “chair city.” Once home to the Heywood-Wakefield Furniture Company Gardner has taken its signature industry to heart with a series of giant chairs over the years. The Bicentennial Chair was built in 1976 to take back the title of world’s largest chair from a chair in North Carolina. There have been giant chairs of one type or another in Gardner since 1905 and even though this one is no longer the world’s largest it is still a wonderful roadside attraction sitting in front of the Helen Mae Sauter Elementary School. The current chair stands over twenty feet tall.

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