Tag: nature

• Spy Pond

  

  On Pond Road off Mass Ave, past a narrow bridge which allows the Minuteman Bikeway to pass overhead, a corrugated concrete boat ramp opens out onto the 103-acre body of water known as Spy Pond.

  Ray Bernoff

  August 19, 2019

  History, Photos, Places

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• Menotomy Rocks Park

  

  Trees rustle in the wind. The highway sighs in the distance. Small waves lap at the shore of Hill’s Pond. In the early evening on a Monday, Menotomy Rocks Park is full of dog walkers, a few kids and parents, speed-walkers and slow-walkers, occasional joggers, and one kid bouncing around on a pogo stick.

  Ray Bernoff

  July 1, 2019

  History, People, Photos, Places

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• Crusher Lot

  

  Crusher Lot, Junior High West Woods, Ottoson Woods. The Shoe. The Rocks. This place, the wooded area between Ottoson Middle School and Gray Street in Arlington Heights, has a lot of names.

  Ray Bernoff

  May 27, 2019

  History, Photos, Places

  arlington, arlington heights, education, edward gordon, gray street, History, kids, massachusetts, nature, ottoson middle school, school, woods